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SUMMARY:Talk - The Future of Farming: Building Tools for Tech Savvy Farmers
DESCRIPTION:This talk is available via Zoom. Registration is required due to security concerns. Please complete the registration form to receive the Zoom connection information. \nSpeakers:\nLily Calderwood\, Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist and Assistant Professor of Horticulture\, UMaine\nSean Birkel\, State Climatologist; Research Assistant Professor\, UMaine Climate Change Institute\nGlen Koehler\, Associate Scientist IPM\, UMaine Cooperative Extension \nThis talk will focus on a project co-led by researchers in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Climate Change Institute in collaboration with Maine farmers. Their goal: to listen to farmer needs around weather information and farm management decision support tools\, and discuss future capabilities in light of Maine’s changing climate. Lily\, Sean\, and Glen will discuss their progress towards providing site-specific temperature\, precipitation\, frost and heat-stress warnings\, cloud-cover/sunshine\, evapotranspiration\, and soil moisture forecast and observation values for locations in Maine. The wild blueberry and potato industries already have crop-specific weather stations. Through the project\, the team has gained a better understanding of how these crop-specific weather stations can be combined with NOAA gridded weather data to serve more farms in Maine.\n\nLily Calderwood’s research and education program aims to develop whole system approaches to wild blueberry production in Maine. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is at the forefront of her work\, which can improve the economic and ecological resilience of farms by incorporating subjects such as fertility\, soil health\, and plant physiology into pest management. Current research includes a weed survey of wild blueberry fields\, tine weeding and cover cropping studies for organic weed management\, mulching studies\, crop and pest forecasting tools\, and foliar fertilizer assessments.
URL:https://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/talk-the-future-of-farming-building-tools-for-tech-savvy-farmers/
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