"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many will agree there can be no greater joy than raising and nurturing animals. Whether they live inside ...

The goats were back for lunch in Morris County. On the menu: fighting invasive species like Japanese knotweed and mugwort that might otherwise have to be controlled by chemicals. For the second year ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) --Businesses in Minnesota and Wisconsin are using flocks of goats to combat invasive plant species. The Pioneer Press reports that a goat services listing website run by Allysse ...

Prescribed or targeted grazing has been used on Western rangelands for many years to manage range weeds and is also used to reduce fuel and maintain fire breaks in high fire hazard areas. It has also ...

The following is from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University: MAXWELL, Iowa -- At the Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt in Polk County, researchers have developed a novel ...

KAUKAUNA – Guests of 1000 Islands Environmental Center may notice goats munching away on the plants in the conservancy — but these kids are hard at work. Twelve goats from Mulberry Lane Farm have been ...

BRULE — Some goats were watching a big, black nanny goat as she struggled to push over a tall bush of buckthorn. But when the bush got down to their level, they pounced. It was a goat stampede to get ...

The goats have been part of the Mitchell Creek Meadows Preserve for about three years and are instrumental in managing the ...

KAUKAUNA, Wis. (WLUK) -- Some visitors to a Fox Valley nature center are busy working to control unwanted plants there. More than a dozen goats are chewing up invasive species and more at the 1000 ...

TOWSON, Md. (WBFF) — Seventeen goats came to Towson University on Monday and Tuesday to eat invasive plants. The goats have come annually from Harmony Church Farm in Harford County since 2014 (missing ...