Fernandez in news report on federal lab

Comments from Prof. Ivan Fernandez of UMaine’s soil sciences faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story about Sen. Susan Collins’ Thursday announcement that the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory, located at UMaine, will remain open.  Fernandez provided perspectives on the value of the work conducted at the lab, which has been in operation for almost 40 years.