by Kathy Birt

Harry and Vicki Elsinga of Brookwater Farms in Kensington, P.E.I., are a team when it comes to their flock of 200 sheep. “He gets them out alive and I keep them alive,” said Vicki of the looming lambing period that takes place on this farm every April and May.

by George Fullerton

Grant’s Breeder Farm in Kars, N.B., on the Belleisle Bay branch of the Saint John River, has grown from a traditional mixed farm in the 1950s to a sprawling operation today that includes a poultry breeder flock for day-old chick and pullet sales, egg production, a dairy herd, a feed mill, and soon a custom forage harvesting service.

by Sajid Rehman

Plant-parasitic nematodes are soil-inhabiting microscopic worms with a body length of less than one millimetre. They are ubiquitous, found in all climates and every type of soil.