USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has asked for public comments on changes intended to clarify program definitions and terminology in the National Veterinary Accreditation Program (NVAP).
Sometimes, like it or not, responsibility falls on the veterinarian to advocate for animal welfare and consumer preferences, even when clients resist change.
Veterinarians, and the farm and ranch crews they train, face inherently dangerous working conditions. One, with potentially serious or even fatal results, is injury from needles while injecting medications.
Each year, the USDA’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture identifies locations around the United States experiencing shortages of veterinary services.
Every day we hear the grim tales of the decline of dairies in states like Wisconsin and the shrinking number of smaller beef-cow operations and smaller feedlots.
