Conscious Consumption

Everyone knows of goats' mythical appetites -- that's why they're killer for clearing brush and invasive weeds. But set them loose on an island, mating and eating everything in sig...

On paper, it looks grand from every angle. A herd of goats descends on a neglected field, overgrown with invasive plants inflicting damage on native ecosystems. They eat the plants, fertilize the land, and move on. But for the farmers who rent out these herds of goats? The business model is another story.

There’s an idea about goats that is firmly entrenched in the popular imagination: Goats will eat anything that isn’t bolted down. They’ll eat shoes, books, McRibs, even tin cans. Except, that’s not really true at all.

Sometimes it’s not easy being a goat. Like when you get accused of being a black magician, stealing a car, and being thrown in the slammer.

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson. This week: a Goat Week cameo.

This is the state fair diary of Deer Girl, a Boer goat, as told to journalist Andrew Jenner.

There have been a lot of headlines about using goats as living lawnmowers. Google famously used goats on an undeveloped section of its campus, and more recently the Congressional C...

We may have an official live goat cam going for Goat Week, but that's not the end of our goat video coverage. For Goat Week, Modern Farmer is teaming up with Directr, a super easy ...

William (Billy to his friends), was quickly rising up the ranks of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh, an infantry battalion of the British Army. (Goats, you see, have a long his...