Why is a Wyoming farmer rearing goats that make silk?  And, more importantly, how?   On tonight’s Futureproof, we’ll be talking to Randy Lewis from the University of Wyoming about how and why he invented the ‘spidergoat’ (Not actual photo).  Find out tonight on Newstalk 106-108 at 6pm.  If you’re looking for something right now, why not watch commercial silk being made from the cocoons of silkworms below?

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