Cattle producers know deworming cattle takes work. With no new molecules to control internal parasites on the horizon, the threat of resistance weighs heavily. To get the most effective results from your deworming program and to also reduce your impact on anthelmintic resistance, we must shift our thinking to managing parasites of economic concern to a level we can live with economically and our cattle can live with physiologically. In other words, mass treatment is not the answer to parasite management.
Evaluation and measurement
The first step in developing a targeted treatment program…