Food animal veterinarian solution

The livestock industry and rural veterinarians are becoming resigned to the lack of newly graduated vet students interested in practicing food animal medicine. FACT: only 5 percent of DVMs graduating from U.S. vet schools in 2007 entered predominantly large animal practices. 

This shortage is manifested by the difficulty of rural veterinarians to hire new graduates.  It is also a problem for cattle farmers nationwide who run a small herd along with crops.  These small farmers are the 80 percent who oversee 20 percent of the cattle.