The Department of Agriculture has grown from a collector and distributor of farming information during the 1860s to, today, a

Formal title: Docket Number [EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0188] National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation…

Recently passed federal legislation will improve national animal disease detection and response capabilities.

Even if a goose, chicken or other poultry is kept as a pet, it is classified and regulated as a food animal species by the FDA.

Evolving drug regulations and public health concerns mean that bovine practitioners should be even more careful to use pharmaceuticals

Multiple government agency jurisdiction and oversight for aquatic animal health and diseases duplicates efforts

Joint AVMA-FVE-CVMA statement on the global control of canine rabies.

Agriculture-related sales of antimicrobials rose by one-sixth in five years, and that included a one-fifth rise in sales of those

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in January that the state of California cannot prohibit the slaughter of pigs that become

Peer-reviewed summary of the scientific literature related to the welfare implications of hot iron branding and its alternatives.

More than half the country has legalized marijuana use in one form or another.

President Obama signed the Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act, making it legal for veterinarians to have access to travel with and use controlled…

Veterinarians protect America's – and the world's – food supply from the farm to the dinner table.

Posted on November 15, 2003   Spire leads AABP Beef cattle practice was a natural choice for Dr. Mark Spire, president of the American Association…

AVMA House of Delegates members want the Association to develop policies and further guidance on emerging issues affecting the profession, such as

In human medicine, generic drugs accounted for 88 percent of prescriptions dispensed in the United States as of 2014. Currently, generic

American Animal Hospital Association Executive Director Michael Cavanaugh says the U.S. Veterinary Workforce Study confirms what many

Peer-reviewed summary for veterinarians of scientific literature related to the welfare implications of tail docking of cattle.

A peer-reviewed summary of the scientific literature related to the welfare implications of dehorning and disbudding cattle.