May 14, 2021, 6:00 am With the winter period now just a distant memory in the minds of farmers, it is important to take a look back at the measures that were taken to control parasites such as liver fluke, and review how effective your treatment was. This is especially important for beef farmers finishing cattle and aiming to maximise their thrive. Farmers focus on having an animal’s diet nutritionally balanced to achieve high performance; yet if they neglect the treatment of liver fluke – they are essentially feeding concentrates to an animal with potentially severe liver damage, and therefore have reduced performance.