by Emily Leeson
“If you have one wireworm, you have wireworms.” That’s the stark reality that Dr. Christine Noronha, an entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Prince Edward Island, presented at the Kentville Research Station in Kentville, N.S., on May 12. Wireworms are the larvae of click beetles...

by Emma Geldart
If you had asked Holly Fisher four years ago to stand in front of hundreds of people and speak on behalf of her graduating class, she probably would have said no. But that’s exactly what she did at the Faculty of Agriculture graduation ceremony on May 12 as her class valedictorian. Nervous? Not at all...

by Joan LeBlanc
After seeing two of his ewes each give birth to five healthy lambs this spring, a New Brunswick man should have gone right out and bought a lottery ticket.  “Yes, I thought I probably should have, but I didn’t,” lamb producer Murray Deman admitted recently, adding that the odds of a sheep giving birth...

by Gayle Wilson
Changing demands in the retail industry and the new Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Layers have spurred DeLong Farms of Barss Corner, N.S., to invest approximately $1.8 million in a new layer barn. New cages were expected to arrive from the Italian company Valli in the middle of May...