Farm Response to Changing Weather: a factsheet describing how Maine weather is changing, and what farmers can do to help minimize risk and ensure productivity.
Technical Reports
Maine wild blueberry growers: A 2010 economic and sociological analysis of a traditional Downeast crop in transition. Rose, A., Drummond, F.A., Yarborough, D.E., & Asare, E. Maine Agricultural & Forest Experiment Station (2013) Miscellaneous Report 445. MR445
Growing season parameter reconstructions for New England using killing frost records, 1697-1947. Baron, W.R., & Smith, D.C. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1996) Bulletin 846. B846
New England killing frost records by zone. Baron, W.R., & Smith, D.C. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1996) Miscellaneous Report 731. MP731
Scientific Review Papers
Climate change effects on livestock in the Northeast US and strategies for adaptation. Hristov, A.N., Degaetano, A.T., Rotz, C.A. et al. Climatic Change (2018) 146: 33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-2023-z
Vulnerability of forests of the Midwest and Northeast United States to climate change. Swanston, C., Brandt, L.A., Janowiak, M.K. et al. Climatic Change (2018) 146: 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-2065-2
Unique challenges and opportunities for northeastern US crop production in a changing climate. Wolfe, D.W., DeGaetano, A.T., Peck, G.M. et al. Climatic Change (2018) 146: 231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-2109-7
