About FarmVetGuide
The most comprehensive directory of large animal vets in the US.
FarmVetGuide is the most comprehensive directory of large animal veterinarians in the United States — 9,569 verified practices across 2,116 counties in all 50 states, with verified data on species treated, emergency availability, mobile service, and USDA accreditation.
Our Mission
Finding the right vet for your livestock is harder than it should be. Generic platforms like Google Maps don't tell you what matters: Do they treat cattle? Are they available for emergencies? Do they make farm calls? Are they USDA accredited? Do they cover your county?
We built FarmVetGuide to answer those questions — and to surface veterinary practices that are genuinely hard to find, especially in rural areas where access to large animal care is limited. Every listing includes the specific data that livestock owners actually need.
Our Data Sources
Our directory is built from four primary sources, cross-referenced and verified:
- USDA APHIS Veterinarian Accreditation records — the official federal registry of licensed and accredited veterinarians in the US, used as our baseline dataset.
- VetLocator — a comprehensive veterinary practice database covering practices not always captured in USDA records.
- AgServiceFinder — agricultural service directory with additional rural and farm-call-focused practices.
- Individual practice websites — each listing is enriched by crawling the practice's own website to extract species treated, services offered, emergency availability, mobile service radius, and facility details.
Data is cross-referenced with Google Maps for contact details, ratings, and photos. We do not fabricate data — if we can't verify something from a primary source, we leave the field blank.
Read our full data methodology →
What We Verify
For each practice, we extract and verify where possible:
Coverage
We cover all 50 states, with particular depth in rural agricultural states — Texas, Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kentucky. We specifically built this directory because many rural counties are classified as USDA Veterinary Shortage Areas, and farmers in these regions have limited access to specialist care.
Who Built This
FarmVetGuide is built and maintained by the FarmVetGuide Editorial Team — agricultural data researchers and writers with backgrounds spanning livestock farming, rural veterinary practice management, and agricultural extension services. This project was motivated by the clear gap between the importance of large animal veterinary care to American agriculture and the difficulty farmers face finding it online.
We are not affiliated with any veterinary association, practice, or pharmaceutical company. We have no paid placements. Our goal is to surface the best available information for farmers and ranchers, not to monetize rankings.
For Veterinary Practice Owners
Is your practice listed? You can claim your listing to update information, correct inaccuracies, add photos, and connect with potential clients looking for your specific services. Basic listings are free and always will be.
Accuracy & Updates
Veterinary practices change — hours shift, vets retire, new practices open. We make reasonable efforts to keep data current but cannot guarantee real-time accuracy. If you find an error, we want to fix it. Contact us and we will correct it within a few business days.