Relative Contributions of Veterinary Service Programs to Dairy Herd Health and Milk Production

Abstract

Veterinary services to the food animal industries are in a period of important adjustments, if not crisis, induced in part by the long-term success of veterinary science in reducing exotic diseases and by competition from other inputs. While control of exotic diseases and competition from other inputs have reduced the demand for food animal services, the supply of veterinarians to industry has been diminished by a growing demand for companion animal veterinarians as consumer incomes have increased.