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Goat Meat and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada: Goats are big business at the annual farm show in Regina, with a large barn, pens to hold hundreds of the animals, a show area and more farmers attending every year. , according to CBC. Producers say the demand for goat meat is skyrocketing, partly because many new Canadians want to eat it. Demand for goat meat is on the rise, and there lots of evidence of that this week at Agribition. According to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, there were approximately 225,000 goats on 9,000 farms in Canada in 2011. The number of goats in Canada has almost doubled since 1996. Goats at Agribition . Anna-May Zeviar/ (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.