It’s always great to know about finance/funding opportunities when you’re studying.  The applications for this one for this year need to be completed by March 31st, but for future records, are you aware of Rural Finance?

Description:

The Rural Finance Ian Morton Memorial Scholarship offers payments of up to $6,000 per annum to one recipient for a maximum two-year period while completing postgraduate studies.
Eligibility Criteria

Students must:

• Demonstrate Victorian residency over a three-year period prior to the application date
• Be a first-year postgraduate student (Masters or above) studying a research project or coursework
• Be under 45 years of age as at 1 January 2015
• Be studying at a Victorian institution
• Demonstrate a career commitment that will benefit agriculture.

Although it’ll be awhile before I’m setting up my dream property, it doesn’t hurt to know of finances I can apply for!  What about you, do you have study goals?

“Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness didn’t know where to buy a horse.” – Author unknown

I’m doing a short course with CAFRE currently and it’s focused on equine health, in particular the respiratory system. There was reference to the Cornell Collar in their first PowerPoint, so I thought I’d look into it.

The Cornell Collar is a collar that is designed to be used on horses that have issues with soft palate displacement. I love learning about new inventions in the equine industry.

In fact, I recently wrote a post on LinkedIn titled Leading or Managing in the Equine Industry and it seems to me that there is a lot of room in our great industry for leaders who create equine related products and tools.

What idea are you sitting on? Get active on it!

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” – English proverb

Well I’ve just discovered udemy and decided to see if they had any horse courses.  There is one at this point – EMM – Horse Muscle Care.

By the looks of it, it’s a short course with a lot of explanatory videos to help educate and equip you the horse owner to be able to provide muscle care to your horses.  Why not check it out?  Who knows, if you find that you’re able to carry it out on your horses, perhaps it could become a business idea on others’ horses?

“Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.” – Danish Proverb

There are so many facets of the equine world, that it is possible to focus on your niche skills and develop them into a business. This seems to have been accomplished by Jane and Stuart Myers, who have a passion for keeping horses sustainably.

Their business Equiculture focuses on just that – keeping horses in a manner that is responsible and sustainable. I love this concept!

Jane and Stuart travel Australia and the United Kingdom, providing talks on how horse owners can go about this. And the best part about this advice, is that it is often free! Local Councils will organise these talks and provide them to horse owners in the area – often along with a morning tea – for no cost. After all, why not invest in your local horse owners who often have property and should be educated to not only look after it, but to help it flourish?

I have been along to one such talk put on by Jane and Stuart and came away with so many notes and ideas – for this blog, and my future property! Currently I’m blessed to be able to also read and edit some of their books that are available for sale. If you have an interest in this area, I encourage you to check out their books, one being Buying a Horse Property.

Can you see how a niche area that you’re passionate about can lead to a career in the form of educating others by talks and selling books? If you have an interest in sustainability, be sure to also check out the Sustainable Horse.

“Without the horse what would have become of man? It has served us for transport, in agriculture, industry since the dawn of time.” – Bertrand Leclair