Goats produce so much milk that you can allow the kids to nurse and still take what's left over. Most goat farmers confine the kids overnight after they are 2 weeks old and milk in the morning.

Jim Montgomery is the happy guardian of Oolong and Aleah, two female Oberhasli goats he keeps for milking purposes in his urban Berkeley backyard. I interviewed him as we herd the genial but ...

And goat milk is worth about 32 (dollars). So they can be profitable because the milks a lot more valuable. And goats a smaller, more efficient, eat less produce more,” he says.

Goats take a break from feeding as they are milked on the Paula Olson farm, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, near Madrid, Iowa. Demand for goat milk, cheese and other products has steadily increased in ...

Goats have played a role in food culture since time immemorial, and while in the United States we may think of goat milk as an alternative to cow milk, in most areas of the world the opposite is true.

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 ...