Beta Hatch is industrializing insect farming within a regenerative food system

Beta Hatch is industrializing insect farming within a regenerative food system, both through innovations in insect rearing and through reinvention of the feed supply chain. We are currently building North America’s largest mealworm farm to supply sustainable protein ingredients to aquaculture and other animal feed markets.

The ‘chicken-egg’ challenge [or ‘beetle-egg’ challenge] of the alternative protein sector is that customers demand stable production capacity before signing a contract, but insect companies need to show customer demand to build and finance the growth of their operations. Through Feed-X, Beta Hatch has been able to establish relationships with customers like Skretting and IKEA who are willing to take the risks of supporting novel ingredients.

As the leading American insects-as-feed company, Beta Hatch is excited to start filling the customer demand for sustainable, traceable and responsibly sourced proteins. Beta Hatch is working with Feed-X to establish product performance of our ingredients for customers like Skretting, to demonstrate the increased fish yields and improved health outcomes from insect-based aquaculture diets.