Dr. Grant's research interests include forages, dairy cattle nutrition and cow behavior. He has authored the Dairy Bottom Line for Feedstuffs Magazine since 2016, and he has been the recipient of the Pioneer Hi-Bred International Forage Award and the Nutrition Professionals Applied Dairy Nutrition Award.

Rick Grant was raised on a dairy farm in northern New York State. He received a B.S. in Animal Science from Cornell University, a Ph.D. from Purdue University in ruminant nutrition, and held a post-doctoral position 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 in the Department of Animal Science at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

The William H. Miner Agricultural Research Institute in Chazy, NY, is a privately funded educational and research institute focused on dairy cattle, equine, and crop management.