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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.

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...

But let's get this out of the way: These goats can't set webs to catch their prey, they don't possess super-strength, and they aren't tottering around the barn on eight bony legs (...

Don’t break the law just for your goats.

All goats are great, which is the best goat for you?

Some say Goatman was a man who kept goats and went mad after teenagers killed his flock. Some say Goatman was the result of a mad scientist is conducting experiments on a goat when something went horribly wrong. All agree that he haunts the woods of Maryland, and he is out for blood.