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

Two Vermont goat farmers used extended lactation to keep does milking up to two years, creating consistent income and reducing costs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We Deux Farm knew two of their goats were expecting babies soon, but they definitely weren’t expecting them quite this soon. They ...

MURDOCK — Carmen Maus had no intention of having a goat on her rural Murdock farm. And yet, when she and her good friend Theresa Smith went to a livestock auction in 2017 in Benson, there she was, ...

1:28 p.m. April 24, 2024: A previous version of this story said members of the Drake family had been goat dairy farmers since the 1880s. They started farming in the 1880s, but Dan Drake began goat ...

ADA, Mich. — A West Michigan elementary school teacher, who's also a goat farmer, has invented a 'Mobile Milking Parlor' which, when produced, will be the first of its kind in the United States.