Goats Provide Alternative to Chemicals for Weed Control

Working for the city of Auburn, goats are doing what a bulldozer could never do without tearing up the place — they are reducing a thicket of blackberry foliage into an ankle-high tangle of leafless if not lifeless blackberry canes and fist-sized piles of biodegradable pellets. From New England to the Southwest, goats and sometimes sheep are nibbling across areas heretofore dominated by the chemical industry