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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, ...

If you’ve been milking goats for any length of time, you’ve likely dealt with mastitis, plugged ducts, or flaky milk at some point—but what if you feel something hard inside the teat that doesn’t seem ...

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 ...

There are strong arguments in favor of both raw milk and goat milk. Unlike pasteurized milk (the kind you get at the grocery store) raw milk contains lots of good bacteria, enzymes, and vitamins. It ...

Itaru Hori expressed surprise when his goat’s milk cheese earned international accolades, but he also felt that the praise ...

Buying fresh dairy produce in Southeast Alaska isn’t easy. The rugged, mountainous landscape doesn’t lend itself well to farming. Now a farming couple in Petersburg are trying to change the way people ...

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 ...

Even for a goat, Venus is smart. She can pick locks, open gates, and choose just the right spot on a fence to hop up and chew her own banner. But starting Monday night, she had a different test to ...