She has focused much of her career teaching both graduate and undergraduate equine nutrition courses, and has made it a focus of her research. Some of her research projects have included forage utilization and hindgut fermentation, use of by-product feeds, probiotic effectiveness, passive immunity in foals, as well as nutritional influences on equine exercise physiology. Future research plans include investigating nutritional requirements for optimal growth and development, energy metabolism during exercise, and nutritional influences on reproduction.