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Empowering Dairy Goat Producers’ Sustainability, Prosperity & Resilience

Our Mission

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SDGA supports & encourages healthy, regenerative & profitable dairy goat production systems by providing the necessary tools & resources to producers & veterinarians.

This project explores how dairy goat production systems may be integral to sustainable agricultural intensification, promoting workforce development & contributing to their community’s vitality. Our work will provide a model of an integrated farm system that will provide valuable insight & decision-making power to farmers working to build resiliency into their operations to manage economic & environmental uncertainty that feeds back into their production system.

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Financial Assessment

in order to provide dairy goat producers with information on their financial health.

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Lifecycle Assessment

in order to provide dairy goat production with some of the same resources available to beef & cow dairy producers.

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Community Capitals Assessment

In order to provide a snapshot of the current community support & potential for market growth.

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Animal Health Study

in order to address high-priority health challenges to dairy goat production while improving antimicrobial stewardship.

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The project is based at Iowa State University and the work is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) program grant no. 2024-68012-41749 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or U.S. Government determination or policy.