"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many will agree there can be no greater joy than raising and nurturing animals. Whether they live inside ...

Goat milk may have benefits for digestive, heart, and bone health. It's a source of protein, vitamins, minerals, and highly ...

Ava Medo, a teenager from Birnamwood, has gained national recognition from Future Farmers of America for her work farming.

A few years ago, we added a couple goats to our homestead farm, including an Alpine milk goat named Avi. I bought Avi already in milk, so the first year I was able to focus on milking without a kid in ...

Rotational grazing can reduce the parasite load of goats, but this is difficult to accomplish with a dairy herd which needs to return to the same location every day for milking. Most dairy setups ...

Another advantage of goats is their simpler breeding requirements. Finding a buck or arranging for breeding is far easier ...

HYDE PARK, Vt. — 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 family, ...

Arkansas dairies have gone to the goats. The state had about 42,000 dairy cows at the turn of the century and ranked as the 36th-largest milk producer, according to data from the U.S. Department of ...

HYDE PARK, Vt. — 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 family, ...