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Article: Goat milk stays steady during declining '80s
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 26, 1987
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Most farmers and processors have suffered
through weak export markets, the strong dollar and high interest
rates during the 1980s, but one tiny area has thrived almost
unnoticed - goat milk.
As sales of other farm products were flat or declined, and
surpluses increased, sales of canned and evaporated goat milk by
Santa Barbara-based Jackson-Mitchell Inc. doubled from 150,000 cases
in 1984 to 300,000 cases last year.
The 1986 figure represents 6 million pounds of milk, which
Robert Jones, a former manager of the company's plant at Turlock,
admits is "infinitesimal compared to the cattle industry."
Cow milk produced in California alone totaled about 16 billion ...