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.
Kentucky becomes major U.S. goat-producing state
click here to read the Farm World magazine story
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"
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
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.
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.
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
Here are some audio links you might also find interesting:
"Across Kentucky" previews the Dec. 3 KGPA annual meeting.
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."