Archive for December, 2008
Raising Goats for Their Hair
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Goats are valuable not just for their milk and meat. Or for their ability to help renew grasslands and control weeds. Or even for their ability to be friendly and gentle around children. Goats can also be valuable for their hair. Cashmere goats produce cashmere and Angora [...]
Special Feed for Swine May Help Farmers’ Crops, the Environment
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Hogs at an Ohio farm Research shows that waste from pigs that are fed a special kind of corn may help a farmer’s crops. And it also may help the environment. Any farmer who raises swine knows that pigs produce a lot of waste. This has both [...]
Getting Started Raising Sheep
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Two different people — one in Russia, the other in California — recently asked us about raising sheep. So today we offer advice from some experts. (SOUND OF SHEEP) A group of four-day old lambs at a ranch in Montana Researchers at Ohio State University say sheep [...]
