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A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

Learn more about the Old Irish Goat, Ireland’s only indigenous breed that traces its roots back to the Late Bronze Age.

For decades, goats were the underdogs of livestock farming, mostly raised for home consumption or modest income. Today, ...

A BRIGHTER future appears on the horizon for the Royal Golden Guernsey goat. An emergency symposium on the breed last October said the goat’s prospects in its home island were at real risk unless ...

When Aidan Simmons, the current herd manager at Gather Farm, was 10 years old, she used to wake up at 5 a.m. to milk her family’s goats. “She wouldn’t even wake us up to say she was going out. She ...