When most people think of goats, they think of dairy goats supplying fresh milk, cheese, and soap. But a growing number of homesteaders are raising goats for a different reason: meat. Goat meat ...

Matt and Heather Hart, owners of Hart Ranch, pose in front of a table full of their products at a recent market. The Harts, who live in Trafalgar, raise goats to make soaps, shampoos and other ...

BAGLEY, Minn. -- Close to 80 farmers interested in or already raising meat goats attended the first of four meat goat workshops in Bagley last month. The interest in the three remaining workshops ...

BRAINERD — One of the best parts about working with goats is that they have their own personalities, said Chris Bock, one of the 4-H members who participated in the goat judging on Wednesday. Bock, 15 ...

Paton Callahan, left, hands a goat to his brother Brice. The two are preparing twin Boer goats for the Okmulgee County 4-H and FFA Spring Livestock Show, which kicks off Friday at the Okmulgee County ...

Jill, Sara and Erin Larson raise Boer goats on the family's farmstead near New Richland, Minn. The goat barn is a former chicken coop. Erin is holding Shep, a kid that weighed six pounds when he was ...

Stepping onto sixth-generation farmer Dana Stewart's farm near Judsonia is like walking onto a wildlife preserve with cattle, goats, poultry, dogs and cats sunning themselves or meandering around the ...