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November 20, 2024

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October 22, 2024

American lobster population, habitat preferences shifting, study finds

October 9, 2024

State’s third robotic milking barn under construction at UMaine’s Witter Farm

October 4, 2024

Maine’s #1 potato: Caribou Russets, a MAFES original

September 3, 2024

Ph.D. student awarded scholarship from national potato organization

August 28, 2024

Five MAFES researchers receive awards from the state to boost specialty crop production

August 21, 2024

Planting for the Future

July 18, 2024

Pest predictor identifies ingredients for ecological recipe for destruction

July 10, 2024

Science interviews Alyokhin on new tool for combating pesticide-resistant beetle

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The Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Stations are located in the homeland of the Wabanaki Alliance (Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Nations). The Wabanaki Alliance has distinct, sovereign, legal and political entities with their own powers of self-governance and self-determination. Issues of water and territorial rights, and encroachment upon sacred sites, are ongoing.