If you raise livestock and ever feed medically important antibiotics such as tetracycline, sulfamethazine, penicillin, neomycin or tylosin, the way you manage your animals’ health will change by January 1, 2017 when the FDA’s Veterinary Feed Directive (VFD) program goes into effect. This will mean that to use these antibiotics in feed, you will need a written Veterinary  Feed Directive (VFD) from your veterinarian, who must be licensed in the state of Ohio. Before a veterinarian may write you a VFD,  you must Continue reading →