[Ag-eq] Green Goats

[Tracy Carcione]

I just read a big article in my local paper about how an organization hired 
a herd of goats to clean up a lot of poison ivy growing in some woods they 
want to make available for hiking and nature studies.  They paid about $3200 
to the company Green Goats to have the herd for a few weeks.  The company 
required the organization to make sure someone came every day to give the 
goats water and such.  I thought that was odd.  If they were my goats, I'd 
want to check on them myself, and not leave it to strangers.  Or maybe I or 
the writer misunderstood that bit.
The article said the goats did a good job.  The town was supposed to follow 
up and spray the roots, but they waited too long, and the poison ivy grew 
back, so they might need the goats again.
But anyway, it seems like people with goat herds could make good money 
renting them out.
Tracy