Yarborough cited in BDN article on USDA purchase of Maine blueberries
David Yarborough, a blueberry specialist with the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s approval to spend $13 million to buy 30 million pounds of surplus wild blueberries in Maine. In a joint statement, Maine’s congressional delegation said growers faced declining prices and increased competition last year because of record crop sizes in the past two years, the article states. Yarborough told the BDN in January that the average prices for 2015 would likely be lower than the 60 cents per pound received the previous year, according to the article.