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Posted on 07/11/2026 1:51:24 AM PDT by grundle
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A Bay Area goat landscaping company says it could be forced out of business if changes are not made to a new state law that would significantly increase compensation costs for goat herders.
Green Goat Landscapers in Gilroy, which uses about 1,000 goats to clear vegetation that can fuel wildfires, said the law could threaten the future of grazing operations that play a role in wildfire prevention across the state.
"We really provide a needed service, and it benefits all of California. Goats go where people and machines can't go, and that really reduces that risk of wildfire," co-owner Brian Allen said.
The company said its herders come from around the world and are compensated through a combination of salary, housing and other benefits.
However, a provision in a new state law requires goat herders to be paid on a 24-hour-per-day, seven-day-per-week hourly basis rather than through the current monthly salary system. Sheep herders are exempt from the requirement.
According to the company, the change would sharply increase labor costs.
"It takes our wages from $64,000 up to $240,000 a year," Allen said.
The company said it cannot absorb those costs and warned that it would have to lay off its three goat herders if the law remains unchanged.
Without herders, these goats just can't be properly taken care of, and it will force companies to have to get rid of them.
One such group in Red Bluff said these proposed changes will lead to a grim outlook for their animals.
"We will effectively sell these goats to slaughter, and we will go out of business and probably file bankruptcy on this business and be done with it in the state of California," Western Grazers owner Tim Arrowsmith said.
Allen said his family-owned business, which has operated in the Bay Area for decades, could face a similar fate if lawmakers do not modify the law.
"We haven't got there yet. I don't want to get there. We're hoping that, like I said, that this issue will be taken up in the traveling session of the state legislature and it'll get resolved," Allen said.
The California Legislature has until Aug. 31 to make changes.
Allen said that without a correction, goat grazing operations, herders and communities that rely on vegetation management services could face significant consequences.
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Yes, but they make up for the wage loss, by letting the sheep herders sleep with the sheep...
Socialists cannot help but micromanage in areas where they lack expertise, and their view can be terribly shortsighted.
This is the result. KKKalifornia gets the government it elects.
/sarc
We had a goat herder named Edsel bring a bunch of his goat critters to clean up our lower forty. They did a great job, but one disappeared, never to be seen again.
This is a win-win for the communists. The get to increase wildfires and claim the cause is climate change and they force another private business into bankruptcy in the name of living wages.
“Socialists cannot help but micromanage in areas where they lack expertise, and their view can be terribly shortsighted.”
Someone sat in an airconditioned California office and did some calculations. Let’s see...we need X amount of income to provide goods and services to illegals. We can’t raise the tax rate; therefore, we have to raise the wages. Viola! Problem solved. Everyone is getting a fantastic raise, and they’ll love us and vote for us long after we’re dead. Win/win.
But where will Muslims get their dates?
If the consumer will not pay the goat rental rate driven by $250k a year herders......then society does not value that service and resources should be allocated to other needs.
Of course, they could just hire more goat herders and work 8 hour shifts 5 days a week and rotate in replacements.
That’s how Walmart avoids full time employees.
This will occur to smart goat herd owners.
Anyone here from Georgia remember “The Goat Man”?
That’s my goat and my tent.
You have 21 days to get the job done, Mr. Homeless. Your last paycheck will be paid at your next job site.
Goat rental, or in other words: Muslim prostitution.
$15/hour*7*24
$2,520 weekly
Using pens or tie posts
6am-7pm = 13 hours
7x13 = 91
$15/hour*91
$1,365 weekly
Burn baby, burn….. California’s plan. Move everyone (well except Dear Leaders) into high density housing. Save Mother Earth.
Just hire all Muslims. Many will work for free..............
Goat, the other red meat. Sounds like the price of goat meat should have a sharp, temporary drop.
and they’ll love us and vote for us long after we’re they're dead
Yes, I was born and raised in SOWEGA and remember him well, wagon and all.
They will be up a creek. 🤪
Just have your goats identify as sheep. Problem solved.
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