Rural

Goats are raced and squares are pooed-on by cows, all in the name of fundraising for a NSW football and netball club.

The goat industry says a new initiative will see numbers and market trends forecasted accurately for the first time.

This far-west sheep grazier could not do without his brightly-coloured 'pumpkin' plane when it comes to getting around his remote station.

Goat meat is now fetching a record price of $6.2 a kilogram in Western Australia.

AgForce is calling on governments to fund the continuation of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative, a massive water saving program budgeted to June.

Sustained growth in demand for goat meat both in Australia and around the globe has sent prices to a record high.

Lobby group livestock SA calls for legislative changes so farmers can tap into lucrative goat markets.

Producers in far west New South Wales say there is a significant need for an abattoir to be built in Broken Hill.

Once the scourge of pastoralists, goats are moving from pest to profit for some producers.

A growing global appetite for goat meat has driven prices to record highs, prompting efforts to improve productivity on Australian goat farms.

A Sunshine Coast man who hires out goats as weed busters urges more people to consider getting a living lawn mower.

The value of irrigated agricultural production in Australia has hit more than $15 billion.

An Indigenous group with plans to ramp up goat farming activity in outback New South Wales has its eyes firmly set on the export market.

Goat industry relieved it won't be forced to handle and tag feral animals under Victorian mandatory tagging policy.

Australia's largest livestock export company Wellard says it needs to regain the confidence of the investment community after a tumultuous eight months on the ASX.

Demand for live dairy goats from Australia is growing, according to the Dairy Goat Society of Australia's federal export officer.

Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is forecasting the market for goat meat will continue to go from strength-to-strength.

Australian goat meat is promoted as a protein alternative to banned Australian beef in Russia. 

A dairy in north Queensland starts producing niche goat's milk products after farming goat meat.

Meat and Livestock Australia is developing a digital strategy with industry to capture and use data generated through new technology.

Knocker the steer was raised on goat's milk among a dairy goat herd, and his owner says now he acts like a goat as well.

Australian livestock producers need to cast aside stigma and actively report disease on their properties, according to Meat and Livestock Australia.

A grazier says his weed control bills are now a lot less, thanks to the goats.

Goat will definitely be on the menu at next week's centenary celebrations in the Northern Territory community of Warruwi.

An earless nanny goat is fast becoming a local celebrity in south-west Victoria, after defying death as a kid and becoming the mother of triplets.