Funding for two-year research project into equine oats
A Kentucky researcher has been granted funding for a two-year query projection into feeding oats to horses.
Dr Laurie Lawrence of the University of Kentucky volition have to a greater extent than than $US122,000 inwards funding for the research, which begins adjacent month.
She becomes the kickoff recipient of an equine oat query grant from the Equine Feed Oat Project (EFOP).
The EFOP is an first of the Prairie Oat Growers Association, a non-profit arrangement representing 15,000 Canadian Oat Farmers.
Launched inwards 2010, the EFOP was created to comport query too develop near the purpose of oats inwards equine nutrition.
Since its formation inwards 1998, it has placed a high priority on funding query that has helped create many novel varieties of oats for both the human too equine markets.
POHA chairman Bill Wilton said: “Dr Lawrence’s query volition aid us know to a greater extent than near why too how oats are skillful for horses.”
POGA received matching funding for the grant from the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, through its Agriculture Development Fund. Each year, the fund provides over $10 meg inwards projection funding to researchers inwards populace too somebody query too evolution inwards companionship to exercise futurity increment opportunities inwards the provincial agriculture industry.
Lawrence is a University of Kentucky professor amongst to a greater extent than than thirty years’ sense inwards equine nutrition. She joined the academy inwards 1992 too has since endure a leading researchers too teachers inwards equine nutrition.
She has written many papers too studies too has been honored past times the manufacture too her peers for her work, including the American Society of Animal Science, the Equine Science Society too the University of Kentucky.
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