John T Groves DVM Earned a BS Agriculture University of Missouri, as
well as his DVM Degree from University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine where he earned the English Practitioner
Award as the outstanding large animal veterinary school student. He is a graduate
of the Beef Cattle Production Management Series from the University of Nebraska. He recently spoke at the
annual meeting of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners regarding the relationship between beef producers and veterinarians.
Dr. Groves is married to Dr. Ingrid Haas and has 2 daughters. He has been in private practice for 17 years, including 9 as the owner of
Livestock Veterinary Services in Eldon, Missouri, which is in the central part of the state. Dr.
Groves has specialized in beef cattle production medicine focusing on large, progressive registered and commercial herds with
emphasis in optimizing production efficiency in all phases of management. Also, Dr. Groves works
with backgrounding operations that range from short term starting operations to grazing and retained ownership programs to
help producers maximize their production capabilities. Dr. Groves has worked extensively with many of these operations to add and maintain record keeping
systems to help them measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the programs that they are working with. He
has also implemented computer based record keeping systems with his clients to aid them in their business evaluation across
all sectors of the production chain. Dr. Groves is the senior veterinarian in our practice
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