Jalopy
Well-known member
I know this is a cattle board and I have an understanding of how beef is produced and marketed both privately, as in through the local locker and through commercial slaughter plants. But my question is about goats and goat meat. I live in Iowa and I see a lot of goats in the midwest and if you travel elsewhere such as Texas you see a great many more. However I have yet to see goat meat at a retail grocery store in Iowa. There may be some places that have it but I haven't seen it so I am wondering if the goat meat is all sold privately or how is it marketed. I know that a lot of the goats that I see are not dairy goats so they are not kept for milking and most are dry lotted so they are not used for clearing brush so they must be for meat. I know some go through a sale barn about 50 miles away but those seem to be going back to farms and not to slaughter houses. I just am curious about why people eat goat meat when good beef is more readily available.