TY - JOUR
AU - Glimp, Hudson, A.
AB - Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/73/1/291/4564219 by guest on 14 October 2019 Hudson A. Glimp School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Agriculture, University of Nevada, Reno 89557 ABSTRACT: Production opportunities, manage- goat marketing is highly unstructured in the United ment strategies, and marketing options for meat goats States, yet prices are generally higher on a per unit of in the United States are reviewed in this manuscript. weight basis than other red meat-producing species. The basis for any expansion must be goat production Efforts to organize marketing have had only limited systems that are biologically and economically sus- success. Over 90% of the world’s goats are in tainable, meeting both producer and consumer needs. developing countries. Goats are increasingly impor- Meat goats historically have been kept for brush tant in these countries as subsistence food producers. control. Their use to control noxious plants and in Production systems range from goats being a part of vegetation management will continue to be their nomadic multispecies herds on arid desert rangelands, primary role in the future. Meat goats are rarely the in agropastoral production systems, to goats being the primary animal production enterprise in the United primary animal enterprise in smallholder farming States, but they 
TI - Meat goat production and marketing
JF - Journal of Animal Science
DO - 10.2527/1995.731291x
DA - 1995-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/meat-goat-production-and-marketing-OtwdZxkdc6
SP - 291
VL - 73
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -