William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute
Rick Grant was raised on a dairy farm near Potsdam, New York. He received a B.S. in Animal Science from Cornell University, a Ph.D. from Purdue University in ruminant nutrition, and completed a post-doc in forage research at the US Dairy-Forage Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1990 to 2003, Rick was a professor and extension dairy specialist at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. From 2003 to 2023, he was president of the William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, NY. Rick’s research interests include forages, dairy cattle nutrition, and cow behavior. He has received the Pioneer Hi-Bred Forage Research Award, the Nutrition Professionals Applied Dairy Nutrition Award, and the 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance. He currently authors a Feeding and Nutrition column for Hoard’s Dairyman magazine and serves as a Trustee of Miner Institute and co-Trustee of the William H. Miner Foundation.