FINCASTLE, Va. (WFXR) — A shortage of farm and large animal veterinarians could put the U.S. food supply at risk. That is according to a report by the Farm Journal Foundation and supported by the ...

Large animal veterinarians are essential to the success of our agriculture industry. But new research shows the dropping ...

Young vets are spurning food animal practices. The impact goes beyond basic animal welfare to the critical issue of food safety, experts say. At Star Summit dairy farm in Jamestown Township, ...

Teri Coon may spend from dawn to dusk tending to cows in the field - doing everything from vaccinations to castrations, from health exams to stomach surgery. She loves her job as a farm-animal ...

Like most rural veterinarians, Dr. Alana McNutt is a jack of all trades. On Tuesday, she did hysterectomies on two cats and two dogs before loading up her pickup to go to a farm near Lisbon where she ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — A new app could help ease the large animal/farm animal veterinarian shortage. It is called VETSon. The app allows farm veterinarians to provide telemedicine services. That could ...

We had run smack dab into an ongoing problem in rural Minnesota: a major shortage of large-animal veterinarians needed to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FINCASTLE, Va. (WFXR) — A shortage of farm ...