Head Shepherd

How to improve your parasite management on-farm with Greg Mirams


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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.


https://fecpak.com/nz


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