Tag: goats
Goats for land management
Goats are superior land managers; they will clear overgrown areas of crop and pasture of unwanted vegetation, overbearing brush and invasive plants.
Finding an alternative to mowers and weed whackers
An alternative to mowers and weed whackers to clear stream banks has been tried by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, according to the Le Mars Daily Sentinel.
Goat, sheep webinars to educate farmers on drought, nutrition
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension will present two webinars to educate goat and sheep farmers on feeding practices following the drought, managing forage...
Sheep, goat sale grosses nearly $65,000
Top-selling buck brings $2,000, top ram $1,100 at Livestock Evaluation
Pa. ram lamb, meat goat buck performance tested sale set...
FURNACE, Pa. — Top-performing ram lambs and meat goat bucks will sell at 1 p.m. Aug. 4, at the Pennsylvania Livestock Evaluation Center in...
Goat meat is in high demand
This is a sidebar to our main feature on meat goats. Click here for that article.
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Meat goat producers like Marty...
Market lambs down 11 percent in Ohio
REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio -- The number of sheep and lambs on Ohio farms on Jan. 1, 2012, totaled 126,000 head, down 2 percent from the 2011 estimate, according to the Ohio office of the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Forever Safe Farm: A place where every animal has a...
Forever Safe Farm strives not to be a place where animals can be dropped off but a place where the public can learn about animals.