Goat farming

Goat farming can be very suited to production alongside other livestock (such as sheep and cattle) on low-quality grazing land.

Goats efficiently convert sub-quality grazing matter that is less desirable for other livestock into quality lean meat.

[1] As with other herbivores, the number of animals that a goat farmer can raise and sustain is dependent on the quality of the pasture.

However, since goats will eat vegetation that most other domesticated livestock decline, they will subsist even on very poor land.

Therefore, goat herds remain an important asset in regions with sparse and low quality vegetation.