HOWARD LAKE, Minn. — World-renown Boer goat expert Fred Hohmeyer recently conducted a clinic for goat producers during the All Goat Expo in Howard Lake. Hohmeyer, an ABGA certified judge, gave ...

BAGLEY, Minn. -- Close to 80 farmers interested in or already raising meat goats attended the first of four meat goat workshops in Bagley last month. The interest in the three remaining workshops ...

On the Nebraska prairie, Josh and Karly Black’s story unfolds like a modern-day frontier saga. But it is not one of cattle or corn, staple commodities for the Midwestern state. The Blacks have carved ...

Meat-goat producers looking for information on how to make their livestock enterprise more profitable can take advantage of a home-study course offered by Penn State Extension this winter. The course, ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- Danyel Filipovich couldn't quite believe it when she heard that Big Red had made the news. That was him, all right -- all 250 pounds of Boer goat, hanging around the Superior ...

Kandi Acres of Hawick is home to nearly 500 goats, most of them raised for meat production. Owned by Tiffany Farrier, it has been a labor of love. It is the only halal-certified goat farm in the state ...

The latest research-based information about meat goat production has gone digital, thanks to a new website provided through Oklahoma State University’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural ...

FARGO - Anyone interested in meat goat production still has time to sign up for the Tri- State Meat Goat Conference that North Dakota State University is hosting Friday through Sunday in Fargo. The ...

The study of genetic parameters has become increasingly central to optimising goat production systems worldwide. Researchers have long focused on estimating heritability, genetic correlations, and the ...

Female dairy goats are reared for milk and male goats kept entirely for the purpose of meat and breeding. Goat fur is also used to make clothes making fabric. Sheep are kept mainly for their meat ...

Recently, I was a guest of an effervescent sexagenarian who is an ex-banker with an obsessive passion for farming. His entrepreneurial adrenaline still keeps gushing like a broken pipe. What started ...