Dan Seversons lecture on Delaware’s Livestock industry was very informative. I have been around parts of the Delaware livestock industry for the past few years from helping family friends raise steers, pigs and goats to showing my own pig at the Delaware state fair for two years. I was very impressed with the impact the beef industry has in the state of Delaware. I feel as if many of Delaware’s livestock industry’s get over shadowed by the poultry industry so I was great to get some info on the other industries and find out the goats actually have a few different markets in the state. One thing that really surprised me was that the goat meat market is more than triple the amount of money that the daily dairy industry does. There are several family owned and operated creamery’s in the state so I was very shocked when I saw that the dairy industry is so small in the state. Even though we are such a small state I know of many dairy farms so this number really was a surprise to me.