While veterinarians are needed more than ever in rural Iowa, especially wth the federal Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) in effect, it’s getting tougher to find food-animal veterinarians close to home. A loan repayment program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture is working to change this trend.

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