The common cattle tick has been a problem to Australian cattle producers since its arrival from Java since 1872. Over … the past thirty years, a considerable research agenda on optimum cattle tick management strategies for individual … policies towards the cattle tick. This is despite successive expensive eradication and control policies in New South Wales and …

The common cattle tick Boophilus microplus has been a major economic pest to cattle producers in the tick-infested area … yield and indirectly through the transmission of blood parasites. Estimates by the Cattle Tick Commission (1973) placed the … (approximately $183 million in 1995 dollar terms). The long-standing policy of the Queensland Government towards the cattle tick is …