Extension to hold emergency listening session on farmhand shortage, media report
The Bangor Daily News and Associated Press mentioned a University of Maine Cooperative Extension outreach effort in an article on a farm labor shortage causing some farmers to lose crops. Extension will partner with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association to hold an emergency listening session Wednesday, Aug. 30 to hear from farmers about the impacts the current labor shortage is having on them, and what can be done to help, according to the article. The County published the BDN article, and the Plainview Daily Herald carried the AP report.