WAGM covers farm field day at Aroostook Research Farm

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a University of Maine graduate student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono. The student reports that they are at a local hospital with minor injuries.

Emergency services, including the Orono Fire Department, University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, University of Maine Police Department, Orono Police Department and Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene.

The university vehicle involved in the incident was a Chevrolet Express van. It was being operated by a university employee.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 and the Dean of Students Office can be reached at 207-581-1406.

The scene has been cleared and Long Road is now accessible. An investigation is being conducted by the University of Maine Police Department with assistance from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office Crash Reconstruction Unit. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lt. Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

August 25, 2016 Cooperative Extension, Economic Development, Outreach, UMaine in the News

WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) reported on a farm field day hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension at UMaine’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle. Field day topics included grain trials, potato breeding and the variety trial program, and crop rotation for control of pink rot potato disease. Lakesh Sharma, a UMaine Extension professor, said the purpose of the event was to show growers the research that is being conducted at the farm, as well as possible potential research coming up in the next few years. Greg Porter, a professor of agronomy at UMaine who leads the university’s potato breeding and variety development program, was one of seven speakers at the event. He discussed new strains of potatoes that are disease resistant, according to the report. The farm also is conducting tests with other types of crops not typically grown in Maine, such as chickpeas, to give farmers a profitable alternative to potatoes, the report states. Fiddlehead Focus also reported on the event.