If you are interested in buying meat from a local farmer, in quarters or halves, review these five considerations: how much meat your family can consume and what cuts to buy, sourcing an animal, finding a local meat processor, costs, and timing.

Learn how to build an all-weather concrete stock tank, with measured and detailed plans.

When fall nears and daylight becomes shorter, sheep and goats are ready for breeding. This guide highlights management practices to ensure profitability during the breeding season.

Get answers to questions about how to feed livestock during drought. Read about nitrate toxicity, corn silage and baleage, forage grazing and feeding hay.

Sound feeding and housing practices result in optimum goat growth and goat milk production. Visit our site to learn about Feeding and Housing Dairy Goats.

Use this doe flock enterprise budget to estimate costs and returns when birthing goat kids in the winter — a system with seasonally high prices for kids and low land needs.

Use this enterprise budget to estimate costs and returns when raising Missouri meat goats in a 50-doe, spring kidding flock.

Jack C. WhittierAnimal Sciences DepartmentDuring periods of high temperatures and humidity, livestock losses can occur from hot weather stress.

Livestock judging consists of carefully analyzing animals against a common standard. Learn steps for success and get judging tips in this guide.

During drought, sheep and goats may have difficulty meeting their nutritional needs, which can lead to weight loss as body reserves are depleted; and most of the animals are predisposed to diseases and some die. It is therefore important to prepare animals for strategies that will help them cope…