When the economy is rough, the dairy goat industry thrives,” said Helen Snyder, dairy goat superintendent for the show.

HYDE PARK, Vt. (AP) — Grappling with a changed industry, two brothers operating their family’s dairy farm in Vermont have made the drastic decision to give up hundreds of cows for goats. The Jones ...

MILAN, Minn. — The goats are by the barn door waiting as Mark and Wendy Lange ready equipment for another milking. The twice-a-day milkings have become routine. The Langes are among a growing number ...

It is not all rosy, though; dairy goat farming also comes with a few challenges that need to be addressed. The first is the issue of a good and well-established market for goat milk. Most of the milk ...

PIPE, Wis. — Wisconsin has long been as one of the nation’s leaders in cow dairies, farm after pastoral farm tucked into the state’s rolling hills. It’s earning another milk laurel in the face of ...

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