Equine Industry and Adult Extension Education
Horse owners, enthusiasts, and professionals can now have access to timely information on horse management, health, nutrition, clinics, on line chats and more.
These Web pages are for anyone interested in learning more about horses and the Pennsylvania Equine Industry. Whatever your horse level of experience or breed interest you can benefit from the educational opportunities offered by Penn State’s Equine Extension Program.
Penn State Horse Newsletter
The Horse Newsletter publishes articles on the many facets of horse health, management, Penn State equine events related to the horse industry in Pennsylvania, edited by Dr Swinker. More about the Penn State Horse Newsletter...
The Horse Industry of Pennsylvania
Interview with Penn State Extension Horse Specialist Ann Swinker
The equine industry of Pennsylvania is the second largest animal agricultural industry in PA and directly accounts for over $10 billion of economic activity for Pennsylvania’s economy. The horse industry is a diverse, broad-based activity with stakeholders that range from track owner and, Olympic riders to large numbers of recreational and show horse riders, small acreage owners, moderate and low-income families. Involvement in the horse industry is not based on any particular demographic group. A horse can fit into any type of lifestyle and horse owners are very diverse. There are currently 216,000 horses, mules, donkey and burros raised on 31,000 different locations across Pennsylvania. Equine owners devote 1.14 million acres of land in Pennsylvania for equine purposes with associated assets totaling nearly $8.27 billion. Overall, the equine industry provides 20,300 jobs annually to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
