The dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Kentucky told several Kentucky lawmakers the school’s Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center is overburdened and under-funded.

“Quite frankly, we are not the best equine diagnostic center and we should be,” Dean Scott Smith told members of the Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Horse Farming Oct. 8 in Ohio County. The eight legislators are traveling throughout the state in between legislative sessions to listen to the concerns of rural residents as well as those who work within Kentucky’s agriculture industry