Payment of the fines will put an end to a controversy brewing since late 2005, when three adults and 15 children were sickened by raw milk traced to Dee Creek's unlicensed dairy. The Woodland-area dairy, though, is now licensed to legally sell raw goat's milk for the first time. Farmers Michael and Anita Puckett and Scott and Summer Steenbarger claimed they did not need a state license because they distributed raw milk under a "cow share" program, in which customers bought fractional...

Angora goats are just part of the animal array at Old Goat Farm, where chickens, ducks and peacocks also strut and stroll about. A shady sitting area against one wall of the old barn is a perfect place to display some of the old tools that came with the farm. This curious peacock is just part of the menagerie of chickens, goats, ducks and other peacocks at the farm. The planting style at Old Goat Farm is unabashedly romantic, as in this pink, red and purple border softening a shed built in...

The $8 million, one-megawatt, photovoltaic energy installation at Farm ACW went online the first week of May, with two acres of solar panels collecting sunlight on a five-acre plot of the farm. There are also blood orange trees Arterberry wanted to be able to pick fruit as he drove through miles of grove trails plus smaller quantities of guava, passion fruit, macadamia nuts, bananas, cherimoyas, kumquats, mangoes and coffee, which they roast and drink on the farm. But today Arterberry,...

Department of Agriculture program during 2002-04 paid sheep producers to retain ewe lambs rather than send them to slaughter. Other woolly matters Also on the request list for wool and lamb producers are higher loan deficiency payments, funding for the National Sheep Improvement Center and a retained ewe lamb incentive that was in effect in 2002-2004. An American Sheep Industry representative recently told Congress that cost-share programs could be directed to prescriptive grazing...

WAITROSE is seeking to buck the image of huge supermarkets exploiting small food producers by promising to support the Welsh lamb industry through the current collapse in prices. The supermarket says it has taken this unusual step because it believes the current market price for new season Welsh lamb is unsustainable for farmers because it does not reflect the costs associated with producing early lambs. Going into the new season, Waitrose has also been paying its dedicated producers...

She's been in the business for a little more than five years and started out with one goat. They were called percentage goats, which means they were crosses with Boer goats. One, named "Blessing," lost its mother before it was weaned, so it was taken to the family home each night and fed from a bottle, then taken back to the herd each morning. She loves to show her goats, but she said there aren't that many quality shows in Kentucky. Once you've watched them grow from babies, it's hard not...