Agricultural Veterinary Associates  

Facing opposition, the federal government has dropped a six-year voluntary effort to get farmers here and nationwide to tag and trace the movements of livestock.
The system was launched by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2004 after a mad cow disease scare in Canada.
The idea was to have a sy...

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 veterinarian.
It's hard physical labor, she explained, "but it's more flexible and fun ...