Corporate campuses
Alongside Google, Yahoo has used goats to help manage vegetation on its property — part of a wave of technology companies embracing grazing as a cost-competitive, low-emission approach that also signals a conservation ethic to the public.
For big campuses with slopes, drainage areas, and awkward corners, goats reach places mowers can’t and turn a maintenance chore into a genuinely popular amenity.
An airport goes wild — on purpose
Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport has used a grazing herd — goats along with sheep, llamas, and burros — to clear brush on rugged, hard-to-reach parcels around the airfield where heavy equipment is impractical. It’s a striking example of grazing solving a very practical land-management problem at industrial scale.
These cases reinforce a simple point: grazing works for serious institutions with real vegetation problems, not just hobby farms.