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Why is goat's milk so much more expensive than cow's milk?
Goat milk is more expensive than cow milk because the resources of goat milk are much less compared to cow milk, and dairy goats and cows have different requirements for the living environment. Dairy cows are suitable for captive breeding, feeding artificial feed, while dairy goats are suitable for free-range breeding, to eat grass and hay, not feeding artificial feed. Because of dairy goats on the vegetation has a certain destructive, some developed countries have been banned to increase the number of dairy goats, so in the international market goat milk is generally more expensive than cow's milk 2-5 times. In addition, goat milk has a very high medical value, health care value and beauty and skin care value, the production of products with higher added value, and more reduce the consumption of goat milk, therefore, the global price of goat milk than the fact that the milk is difficult to change.