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Alpaca trade grows, but pressures mount

Alpaca trade grows, but pressures mount

Alison Grant/Plain Dealer Reporter

On a fresh Spring day, Brenda Burns leaves city traffic behind to check on her piece of paradise in rural Medina County--Lucy, Libby, Carmelita and a half-dozen other alpacas with luminous eyes and foppish top knots, contemplatively eating hay in the paddocks of Turtle Creek Farm.

"They're out of my boy, Maximus," Burns says of the two spindly younsters that nuzzle their protective mothers and pong about on the spring-loaded legs like gazzelles. Read More