Friday, March 19, 2021
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today that Oregon State University has earned a $299,950 federal Agriculture Department grant to study feeding spent hemp biomass to cattle.
The $299,950 hemp biomass grant from the Agriculture Department’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) aims to implement the safe use of hemp byproducts in livestock diets and take full advantage of their nutritional and potential medicinal properties to improve animal health and the quality of animal products. In addition to the hemp biomass grant, OSU also earned a $299,999 NIFA grant for how to improve farm sanitation practices.