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Colostrum: The Nearly Magical Mix
Colostrum: The Nearly Magical Mix

How nice it would be to be able to give every calf a treatment that would help safeguard their health, promote growth, and set them up for more successful lifetime performance.

Veterinary technicians can keep the heart of the practice beating, if they're utilized effectively.
Veterinary Technicians Key to Underserved Rural Areas

You can’t be everywhere, all the time. Here’s why veterinary technicians are essential to members of the large animal health community.

Robert B. Corbett DVM, PAS, Dipl. ACAN
The Effects of Probiotics on Calf Health and Productivity

As understanding of the cattle microbiome improves, dairies can benefit from strategic use of probiotics and microbial management.

Adequate space in group maternity pens can allow cows opportunities to isolate themselves at calving.
Mimic Nature in Maternity Pens

When humans first domesticated animals, they began replacing natural living environments and animal behaviors with managed and controlled systems.

Cannabis in Veterinary Medicine
Cannabis in Veterinary Medicine

Medical goldmine, pipe dream or somewhere between?

Quiet Power: How Ag Can Embrace Animal Welfare, Page 2
Quiet Power: How Ag Can Embrace Animal Welfare, Page 2

Graduate student Miriam Martin sees a bright and profitable future for a cattle industry that’s willing to tackle tough topics like animal welfare and pain mitigation.

How Now, Comfortable Cow?
How Now, Comfortable Cow?

Two experts share striking evidence that lameness and locomotion is much more prevalent than most farmers recognize.

Health and wellness is a growing concern in the veterinary profession.
Professional Wellness Takes Center Stage for Veterinarians

Stress is a factor in most professions, but particularly for veterinarians and especially for those just beginning their careers. Here's what to look for, and what to do about it, as the profession responds.

(l-r) Aislinn Ophoff, Juli Henderson and Amanda Anderson attended the student luncheon at the U.S. Animal Health Association Annual Meeting, taking place in Kansas City, Mo., through next Wednesday.
“Veterinary Students – We Need YOU!”

Veterinary students at the U.S. Animal Health Association annual meeting are hearing a clear message: The profession needs young people, and those who enter the field have unlimited opportunities.

Senator Pat Roberts hosts Homeland Security Secretary Kierstjen Nielsen at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.
Vaccine Bank Still Planned as Part of 2018 Farm Bill

Senator Pat Roberts signals support for funding animal health center this year.

Session headliners include veterinarians Nels Lindberg, Dan Thomson, Ty Brunswig and Tom Schwartz.
Vet Leader One-Day Conference Set For June 22 in Kansas

Veterinarians have a unique opportunity to gain practical, usable information and solutions to every day challenges at the second annual Vet Leader One Day event, June 22, 2018, in Great Bend, Kan.