{"id":4686,"date":"2011-04-17T05:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2011-04-17T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T22:39:56","slug":"kansas-law-may-result-in-more-veterinarians-coming-to-rural-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/kansas-law-may-result-in-more-veterinarians-coming-to-rural-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas law may result in more veterinarians coming to rural areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In last Sunday\u2019s\u00a0<em>Kansas City Star<\/em> an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2011\/04\/09\/2789064\/brownback-aims-to-repopulate-rural.html\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>by John Milburn from the Associated Press talked about Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signing a new law to create Rural Opportunity Zones in counties that have faced large population declines in the past decade. The point of the law is to lure new families to rural Kansas on the promise of no income taxes for five years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These counties are in need of resident, jobs, and even veterinarians, though it can be difficult to recruit veterinarians to these areas. Mike Whitehair, DVM, Abilene Animal Hospital, Abilene, Kan., has served as an AVMA delegate for the Kansas Veterinary Medical Association and says the population of veterinarians seems to follow the growth or decline in people.\u00a0Whitehair says there are a few examples of counties in Kansas where he looked at percent decline since 2000 and noted median age, number of farms, income per operation, number of cows and bushels of wheat produced. He says the numbers of veterinarians in those counties would be flat to declining. \u201cWhen now Gov. Brownback was our U.S. senator, I had a good long discussion in his office about his desire to create an atmosphere to attract and retain people to move back to the rural areas,\u201d Whitehair says.\u00a0\u201cI applaud his efforts in both arenas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dairyherd.com\/bovine-vet\/Repopulating-rural-veterinarians-119696544.html?ref=544\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last Sunday\u2019s\u00a0Kansas City Star an\u00a0article by John Milburn from the Associated Press talked about Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signing a new law to create Rural Opportunity Zones in counties that have faced large population declines in the past decade. The point of the law is to lure new families to rural Kansas on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4688,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}