Small-scale dairy goat farming is transforming lives in Mukurwe-ini, Nyeri County by giving farmers financial independence. For Mary Wachuka Gachunia, her journey into dairy goat farming began in 2000 ...

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 ...

RANDOLPH, Vt. – As consumers increasingly look to explore locally-produced and artisan food options, and with goat cheese remaining quite popular, agriculture officials in Vermont say they are getting ...

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 ...

Mary Rigdon never sleeps late — not even on weekends. She doesn’t go carousing past 7 p.m. either. Some folks might not take to rising at 4 a.m. on a Saturday or being stuck at home in the evenings, ...

ALEXIS, Illinois -- Dairy goat farming is the largest growing field of livestock in agriculture nationwide. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows the increase is not just nationwide -- ...

Dairy goats are helping women earn income, improve household nutrition and slowly claim their space in a farming system that has long been dominated by men. For members of Umoja Women Self-Help Group ...

EPWORTH, Iowa (AP) - When Craig Koopmann was 10 years old, he asked his godmother for a goat as a present. Since then, he and his brother Jack Koopmann have expanded Pleasant Grove Dairy Goat Farm to ...

Ephraim Stoltzfus would like nothing more than to get the goat of struggling Plain Sect dairy farmers around Lancaster County. Raising meat goats to satisfy the preferred diets and religious ...

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, ...