Livestock & Bees

Published April 1993 USDA Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Angora goats may be the most efficient fiber producers on Earth.

Small Farm News January/February 1992 Fred S. Conte, Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis. Adapted from an article by Dr. Conte called, California Aquaculture: Growth Keyed to Diversity and Markets. In World Aquaculture 21(3):33-44,1990.

January 1994 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture More than 211,000 beekeepers maintain about 3.2 million honey bee colonies in the United States. Thousands of beekeepers are small-scale entrepreneurs.

December 1992 The world is beginning to give goats-nature's best herbicide-more attention. Leafy spurge-poisonous to some animals-is causing even people who laughed about goats to take a more serious look.

January 1989 USDA Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Where's the beefalo? It's still around, but the excitement is gone.

Demand for specialty meats is growing rapidly in the U.S.

Revised July 1993 United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research Service Office for Small-Scale Agriculture The relatively low investment and the natural, gradually increasing size of a flock may make sheep ideal for the beginning small and part-time farmer, according to Dr.