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The following is from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University: MAXWELL, Iowa -- At the Chichaqua Bottoms Greenbelt in Polk County, researchers have developed a novel ...

Prescribed or targeted grazing has been used on Western rangelands for many years to manage range weeds and is also used to reduce fuel and maintain fire breaks in high fire hazard areas. It has also ...

BRULE — Some goats were watching a big, black nanny goat as she struggled to push over a tall bush of buckthorn. But when the bush got down to their level, they pounced. It was a goat stampede to get ...

The goats were back for lunch in Morris County. On the menu: fighting invasive species like Japanese knotweed and mugwort that might otherwise have to be controlled by chemicals. For the second year ...

KAUKAUNA, Wis. (WLUK) -- Some visitors to a Fox Valley nature center are busy working to control unwanted plants there. More than a dozen goats are chewing up invasive species and more at the 1000 ...

KAUKAUNA (WLUK) -- Great gobbling goats. Nearly two dozen animals are on the job at the 1,000 Islands Environmental Center in Kaukauna. The goats are chewing unwanted plants, while becoming a favorite ...

TOWSON, Md. (WBFF) — Seventeen goats came to Towson University on Monday and Tuesday to eat invasive plants. The goats have come annually from Harmony Church Farm in Harford County since 2014 (missing ...

WORCESTER, Mass. — In the winter chill last January, a mountain goat named Celia was wandering through the rocky highlands of northern Spain when a tree fell and crushed her to death. With that, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No "kidding," the City of Lenexa is employing goats to solve its vegetation problems. The city contracted Goats on the Go to get invasive plant species under control at Sar-Ko-Par ...

The Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District, the Brainerd Parks and Recreation Department and the Brainerd Rotary Club are using goats instead of herbicides to manage the European buckthorn at ...