About Food Supply Veterinary Medicine

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Recognition

= AVMA/SAVMA  Members Only

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• American Veterinary Medical Association
  • Used information from the AVMA database to acquire the number of Food Animal Veterinarians as of December 31, 2006.
• United States Department of Agriculture – National Agriculture Statistics Service
  • Based off of the 2002 Census of Agriculture Volume 1 – County Level Data

• Total Food Animal Veterinarians
  • The total food animal veterinarians reported consist of all active AVMA members (Regular, Recent Graduates, and Educational) and Non-members (Excludes non-members born prior to 1936 and non-members who received their veterinary degree prior to 1962) and who have a species category of food animal exclusive, predominant or mixed*.
    • *Mixed Animal counted in the food animal veterinarian category consisted of all those who had 30% or more involvement with one or more of the following species: Bovine, Porcine, Ovine/Camelid, Cervid, Poultry
• Total Food Animals
  • Three categories from the USDA census were used for each state and combined to make up the total food animals reported. The categories are: Cattle and Calves, Hogs & Pigs and Sheep & Lambs
• The column within the table listed as "Counties with 0 Veterinarians" has three labels
  • x: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are less than 5,000 food animals
  • y: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are between 5,000 and 25,000 food animals
  • z: Counties with 0 Veterinarians where there are more than 25,000 food animals