UM Radrick Farms Golf Course using goats for weed control
The University of Michigan golf course rented 10 Boer goats to help control and remove invasive plants this year.
"Dan Mausolf, the course's superintendent, and a member of the Michigan Golf Course Superintendent Association, said Radrick Farms is the only course in Michigan to use goats for vegetative management."
Source: MLive 7/23/15
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/michigans_goat_caddyshack.html
Artiodactyls UNITE!
a horse and you got a goat, and no one wants a goat.
Wow, the weed problem out there must be really baaaaaaaaaaaaahd.
My dad leased goats to keep poison ivy out of our fields. Goats love to eat that stuff. He would just move their enclosure around in a grid pattern.
Good stuff. Modern chemical lawncare and agriculture is actually an even bigger problem for our future on the planet than fossil fuels, believe it or not. Misinformation and disinformation emanating from the chemcial industry and into the mainstream corporate media (which receives significant advertising revenue from and shares major investors with the industry) have kept it from getting the attention it deserves.
The Univ of Nebraska has us beat.... They saved over $200,000 last year by letting the cheerleaders graze on the football field.