Goat Farming #001
Urban Income, Rural Lifestyle.
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Goat Farming #001 |
Now if I buy your goats for 80 cents a pound and sell them for 75 cents a pound, how much money do I make?
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Yes Virginia, it is possible to
support your family's lifestyle with 50 goats, on 5 acres. There have been a number of
fads in the livestock farming industry. A few have worked but only for a short period of
time as the mid 90's Emu adventure illustrates. The Texas cattle rancher earns, if he is
good, a whopping $3/head per month. Goats, the world's most popular red meat source,
produce twice as many twice as fast, forage concurrently on the same land, earning a
dollar more per head. You would need 2500 goats on a lot of land to make our goal of
$10,000 a month. Learn how to legally produce raw goat's milk, selling each nannies 305
gallon annual production for ten to twelve dollars a gallon. Think of it as a legal
'still' for making milk shine. There are two things you gotta do to reap these untold riches, 1) do your own marketing and 2) get the buyers to your farm. This course will provide you with loads of information on the how-to-care, feed and produce goats then move on to developing a game plan for earning a living from your goats (hair, meat, dairy, brush, show and breeding types) and the number crunching required to make it work for you. A Saturday/Sunday field trip to the instructor's working farm in Wharton is included. Class size 3-20+3. Teg Gregory practiced
Architecture and the marketing of Engineering & Construction Services over 20 years in
Egypt, Brazil, Singapore and the States. He and his wife Shelby took up goat farming in
1998, as a sustainable agricultural enterprise upon moving to her family's 130 year
homestead in the Texas Panhandle. N9055A:
1 Fri 7-9:30 Jan 20 & 1 Sun 1-4pm Jan 22 Leisure Learning Unlimited,
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