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Medically reviewed by Karina Tolentino, RD Drinking goat milk may support a healthy gut and improve cholesterol and blood ...

Treasured Sunrise Acres, since late April a solely goat-sourced dairy after selling its Jersey cows, is growing its revenue — from milk and from a non-GMO feed grain venture. The Parma, Idaho, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Officials at the national institute said that persistent low temperatures, lack of or limited sunshine, fog, and cold winds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...