Head Shepherd
Mark Ferguson from neXtgen Agri brings you the latest in livestock, genetics, innovation and technology. We focus on sheep and beef farming in Australia and New Zealand, and the people doing great things in those industries. To learn more about neXtgen Agri, visit www.nextgenagri.com.
Head Shepherd
How to improve your parasite management on-farm with Greg Mirams
This week, Ferg chats with Greg Mirams, founder of Techion/FECPAK. What started as a tool to do worm egg counts on-farm has evolved into a digital platform that reads samples using AI, returns results in minutes, and is helping farmers tackle drench resistance head-on.
They cover the early days of FECPAK, how AI is speeding up diagnosis, what species ID could unlock for breeders, and why post-treatment testing matters more than ever.
• Why drench resistance is no longer a “maybe” and what farmers can actually do about it.
• How AI now reads worm egg counts in minutes.
• The upcoming ability to identify worm species, making treatments far more targeted.
• How egg count data is being used to track contamination, inform grazing plans, and map resistance across regions.
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