Cashmere...
Conjure up your wildest dreams and you will be clothed in cashmere. But do you know that cashmere comes from goats? Do you know there is a small but vigorous American Cashmere Industry?

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Do you know that goats are the favorite livestock project for young 4H ers?

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Read on, find out more about the...

Exciting World of American Cashmere.

Within these pages there is information about:

• how to feed cashmere goats,
• how to tell if they are sick,
• how to assess their fiber,
• how to harvest that fiber and
• where to market the fiber.

There are cashmere goat growers all over the country; you can locate them here. Goat 4H Projects are very popular. Look at the handbook here.

On the other end of the spectrum, read about Mongolia and the cashmere industry there. Drought and dzud conditions in the last half of the 1990s decimated the goat population and endangered the cashmere industry. Find out more about the 5 million animals that have died and why.

Mostly, there is a lot of no-nonsense, honest and dependable information that is uncolored by bias and personal agendas.

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