Goats prefer to graze on brush over conventional pasture. The best thing goats are for is to fence them into an overgrown neglected woodland and let them eat everything below five feet tall. They will chew Kudzu infested land until there isn’t a stem left.
Right about that!
The goats in East Africa get up into the scrawny trees to browse.
I have this wild & crazy idea about bringing Pokot, Turkana or Karamajong herdboys & their goats to the Southeast.. Rent them out clearing kudzu in half-day shifts. Half day herding, half day at school. After a year, load 'em all up on the boat and head home. Go thru the Suez canal, stop by Jiddah and sell the goats in time for the Hajj.
Pay the profits to the herdboys. A bit of education and a bit of money for the boys, plus the Kudzu problem is taken care of for a short while.
Like I said, wild & crazy idea. Of course, some "human rights activist" would go bananas about "exploitation" (of the goats? the boys? the kudzu?) and put a stop to the whole win-win-win situation.