Louisiana Goat Cooperative/Small Ruminant Club

Through Southern University Ag Center and other 1890 land grant institutions the IFASF project introduced entrepreneurial, management, and organizational skills necessary to access post-production markets, including marketing added-value goat meat products. The long-term goal was and still is to increase the portion of the food dollar received by limited resource farmers. Research proved the popularity towards goat meat and goat value-added products was increasing by leaps and bounds

Through this project, we wanted to create an opportunity for small producers to access a higher profit through vertical integration into multiple segments of the market-chain. This was achieved through producer education specific to goat production, product development, capital access (financing and credit), business management skills and marketing. In October 2006, a regional steering committee was initiated, and through that a goat coop was formed and named. Southeastern Goat Cooperative of Louisiana also known as Louisiana Goat Coop.