Arizona has hundreds of thousands of cattle and dairy cows, and only a handful of veterinarians to tend to the herds. Most vet students come out of school saddled with huge student loan debt and go into lucrative family pet practices. Now, the state and local schools are trying to get more vets into the rural areas that need them most.
Casey Kuhn was a senior field correspondent at KJZZ from 2015 to 2019.