SMALL BUSINESS: A Sullivan County alpaca farmer is getting a mill. 'Women will go crazy for this stuff,' she says. Maria Bravo discovered her business dream in 1995, when she was stuck in the Chilean ...

Farmers raising alpacas for their fleece are a growing segment of the U.S. agriculture industry Fifteen years ago, Jim Barker's wife came home from an Ohio county fair and told him she'd found their ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Would you like to insult an alpaca? Call it a llama. People confuse them all the time, but a llama is about twice the size of an alpaca. Llamas have traditionally been used to herd ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Think of the softest thing you know. A cotton ball? Your favorite pillow? That expensive cashmere sweater? Once you sink your fingers into the fleece of an alpaca, you will be ...

For a year, Skip Taylor sat in his car on Front Street in Bath, notebook in hand, and waited and watched. “I watch people and, more importantly, I count [shopping] bags,” he says. “I make up a little ...

BOZEMAN – Standing over a squirming alpaca, Brian Denstedt sheared off its fleece while avoiding the animal’s kicks and sudden jerks. “You’re right over the top of them, you’re right in their armpits, ...

[imgbelt img=Two+alpacas.jpg]Alpaca ranching has been touted as a great investment, especially for retirees. But rapidly declining sales prices mean the bubble may have burst, leaving rescue ...

EUGENE, Ore. - “Heeeeeeere ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca ‘paca, heeeeere ‘paca ‘paaaaaaca,” Robbin Freedman calls out to a herd of around 50 grazing alpaca. Many of the three-foot tall four-legged animals ...

Motorists will see many things when riding through the hills of Jasper County — fields of grazing cows, trees mirrored in ponds — and maybe, just maybe, they will run across a herd of alpaca trotting ...

This is the place where the unique alpaca roams. It is just off the road going to the University of Massachusetts that is a city within itself; where the word zoo is used to describe social lives ...