The Purpose of the Association shall be to promote the Cooperation, Coordination, and Support Necessary for the Continued Improvement and Development of Dairy Goat Husbandry and the Dairy Goat Industry within the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Jillian Lowery, one of the Youth Herdsmanship Award winners
at the 2008 VSDGA Annual Spring Show

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of John Coles, longtime VSDGA member and tireless champion of the rights of small farmers and consumers, on April 4, 2010. John and his wife, Christine Solem, operated Satyrfield Farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.

Daily Progress: Market Mainstay John Coles dies at 71

Obituary, Daily Progress

Tribute by Joel Salatin