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Head of the herd

Sheep and goat producers in Kentucky have a new man leading the flock

By Robin Roenker

SPECIAL TO THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER

When Ray Bowman first started raising goats on his Franklin County farm about 10 years ago, he heard a lot of stifled laughter from other livestock producers.  (click here for complete story)

Sue Weant had a nice article called Kentucky goes to the goats in a recent issue of Business Lexington.

Farm World magazine

Kentucky becomes major U.S. goat-producing state
click here to read the Farm World magazine story

October 2006 - Goat Production Month in KY

Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher honored the Commonwealth's goat industry by proclaiming October 2006 "Goat Production Month."  Click here to read the news release from the KY Department of Agriculture or click here to see the proclamation.

Kentucky Living

Have a look at the January 2006 issue of Kentucky Living magazine for their cover story "Growing Goat Markets" and the accompanying "More about the goat industry"

 

 

 

No Kidding - We're in The Economist!

Ray was quoted in an August 25 edition of the British magazine, The Economist.
"Ray Bowman of the Kentucky Goat Producers Association reckons that goat numbers in his state have risen by four- or fivefold in the past three years."
Read the article on-line by
clicking here

Parlez-vous français?

If you speak (or rather read) French, you might want to check out the article about us in the September/October issue of "La Chevre" (The Goat)  Click Here for .pdf version   For the less adventurous, here's the translated version.

 

How about Portugese?

If you speak Portugese and have an interest in Goat and Sheep production in Brazil, we sometimes contribute to Jornal de Cabra & Ovelha (Sheep and Goat Journal.)  Click the link or the photo to see their web site.

Newspapers and Magazines

Click the photo at left for our story in The Lane Report 
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture recently released a feature on the Commonwealth's goat population.  Click here for the story and here for the version featured in The Lane Report's Fast Lane.

 

"Meat goat production is one of the many hands-on demonstration projects under way at Kentucky State University... " Click Here

Broadcast interviews

  Here are some audio links you might also find interesting:

Ray's the new Executive Director of the Kentucky Sheep and Goat Development Office. Click here to hear him discuss the position with "Across Kentucky's" Mike Feldhaus

Noted agronomist Jeneen Wiche and Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Bob Hill host "Homegrown" on WFPL-FM in Louisville. Ray was featured on their May 27, 2006 edition.

"Across Kentucky" previews the Dec. 3 KGPA annual meeting.

Chuck Mraz of WMKY-FM's "Front Page" spends 25 minutes with Ray talking about the goat industry - long download!

Kentucky Farm Bureau's Mike Feldhaus talks with Ray about the "Rodney Dangerfield of Kentucky livestock production" on the spooky October 31 edition of "Across Kentucky."

"Across Kentucky" examines the strong meat goat market and the ABGA National Show and Meeting coming to Louisville on its June 6 edition.

Kentucky Farm Bureau's Mike Feldhaus talks with Ray about the state's goat numbers on the March 1 edition of "Across Kentucky."

This time Mike's talking to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Tess Caudill about goat markets on the January 10 "Across Kentucky."

Ray and Mike talked last December 20 about the Kentucky Goat Producers Association and the growing number of local goat groups on "Across Kentucky."

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