The focus slowly shifted to goats with higher meat yield; from 2004 onwards, Boer goats – with their impressive build and meat production – were imported from South Africa and Australia.

Goat farming is popular for many reasons. For starters, it’s a hardy creature that obtains market weight relatively quickly. Furthermore, it’s in demand as a meat, fibre and dairy product in the form ...

South African Boer goats wait for feed before coming in from pasture. Tom and Susan Barnes raise about 80 goats on their farm for meat production. Benjamin Brayfield, Journal staff ...

The grand champion ram, meanwhile, was a young Boer goat, bred by Albert van Zyl, of Soetdoerings Boergoats in Hoopstad, Free State, which was also named junior champion.

There are over 1,000 goats of different breeds, including Savanna, Kalahari red and South African Boer on her farm.

AGRICULTURE NEWS - A Boer goat stud near Griekwastad in the Northern Cape recently made the record books with the first double ram transaction in one day in South Africa, selling two rams for R1m each ...

A Boer goat stud near Griekwastad in the Northern Cape recently made the record books with the first double ram transaction in one day in South Africa, selling two rams for R1m each. Lukas Burger ...

The Boer goat ‘Formula One’ recently sold for R1.05-million at an auction in Bloemfontein, Free State. According to Farmer’s Weekly, this is the highest price ever paid for a stud goat in ...

The Boer goat ‘Formula One’ recently sold for R1.05-million at an auction in Bloemfontein, Free State. According to Farmer’s Weekly, this is the highest price ever paid for a stud goat in ...