The County covers retiring potato expert Jim Dwyer
The County, the hub for the Aroostook Republican, Houlton Pioneer Times and The Star-Herald, featured longtime potato expert Jim Dwyer, who is retiring this summer from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and becoming a professor — the Robert Vinton Akeley Chair of Agricultural Science and Agribusiness — at the University of Maine in Presque Isle. “To help build a new program will be exciting,” says Dwyer, who will teach classes in farm safety, integrated pest management and entomology. The Houlton native says he’s looking forward to teaching the next generation of agricultural professionals. “I think there will be young scientists who are interested and willing and able to work in this. A field office is unique. You are on the front lines working with growers,” he says. “It’s been very rewarding to see students who’ve worked for me in the summertime become active in the industry.”