Alumnus runs unique vegetation clearing business
5/26/2013
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

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 Ben Robel is in the digestion rental business.
 
When his goats eat, he makes money.
 
Robel, owner of Vegetation Solutions, is part of a small but growing industry renting goats to clear fields and invasive plant species. The animals are perfect for the work — they eat just about anything, they scramble into spots difficult for humans and machinery to access, they don't collect overtime and they don't call in sick.
 
 
 

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