Livestock farming is a key economic activity in many parts of the country with the industry contributing significantly to agricultural gross domestic product (GDP), the second largest contributor to ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension will present two webinars to educate goat and sheep farmers on feeding practices following the drought, managing forage shortages and the production of ...

A workshop aimed at teaching people about sheep and goat production is headed to Penn State Extension in Westmoreland County on March 22. Attendees will learn how select animals based on performance ...

Sheep farming is an agricultural process of raising sheep in open fields. The animals are kept together in groups and sheared once a year to remove their wool. Other operations that may be done on the ...

SAN ANGELO — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in San Angelo has been awarded a trio of grants totaling over $136,000 to further develop research and educational outreach projects related to ...

COMFORT — Blame it on the canned mutton. During World War II, soldiers were given rations of gnarly old sheep meat that turned a whole generation and their offspring off to eating anything that once ...