Refugia, resistance testing, and the future of worm management with Chloe Frank

About this episode

Chloe Frank discusses the challenges of drench resistance in sheep management and the importance of monitoring worm burdens.

Most sheep producers assume their drenches are working. Chloe Frank's job is finding out whether they actually are. After discovering how few producers in her region were monitoring worm burdens, Chloe launched Central Stock Health while still at university. She now travels from farm to farm delivering on-site worm egg counts and helping producers make better management decisions. In this episode, Chloe joins Mark to discuss the challenge of drench resistance in Australia and why better inf...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Ferguson

Guest: Chloe Frank

Topics covered

• worm management
• drench resistance
• sheep production
• agriculture
• animal health

Keywords

• worm management
• drench resistance
• sheep producers
• Central Stock Health
• on-site worm egg counts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Central Stock Health

Places: Australia

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