When most people think of goats, they think of dairy goats supplying fresh milk, cheese, and soap. But a growing number of homesteaders are raising goats for a different reason: meat. Goat meat ...

There is a quiet revolution on the far south coast of NSW as rural landholders buy goats rather than reach for an environmentally expensive chemical solution for weeds. Non-farmers are buying all ...

A meat goat is a breed that is specially bred and raised for meat. There are four main breeds raised for meat: Boer, Spanish meat goat, Kiko and Tennessee. The Churchill County Livestock Show and Sale ...

The demand for chevon is outstripping supply in the United States, so a Laurel woman wants to be part of a new market for meat. Stacy Anderson has started a farm flock of Boer goats that she intends ...

Nancy Barlass, one of a growing number of goat ranchers in Sonoma County, is the first to admit that her goat meat isn?t exactly an easy sell. ?I?ve donated it to barbecues,? she said. ?Everybody ...

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

A white and a dappled Boer goat stand in their pen at the D and J Goat Farms auction at the Johnston County Livestock Arena. The auction drew goats from across North Carolina and buyers from across ...

If goats are in short supply in your area, you might consider raising breeding stock to sell to other goat farmers. Before deciding to breed goats for sale, consider all the possible goals for your ...