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 ...

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 ...

Ephraim Stoltzfus would like nothing more than to get the goat of struggling Plain Sect dairy farmers around Lancaster County. Raising meat goats to satisfy the preferred diets and religious ...

HAMPTON FALLS — Sue Veilleux is a morning person. She’s always been a morning person and that’s a good thing if you run a farm with over a 100 Nubian goats. Jesta Farm in Hampton Falls began in 1982 ...

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 ...

NERSTRAND, Minn.— There are only two goats left at Singing Hills Dairy, and they are nervous. The two goats once were part of a herd consisting of 26 milking Saanen and Nubian, and they are the only ...

PFEIFER — Some people whisper to horses, others to dogs. But for Coraleen Bunner, it's goats. Bunner raises all kinds of goats on her goat farm, Shepherd's Gate in Pfeifer, but she is partial to ...