Griffin Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management professional and manager of the Extension Tick Lab, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about the natural lull in tick and browntail moth activity that occurs in the fall. MSN shared the WABI story.
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News Center Maine spoke with Ryder Scott, the director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H centers, and Lyndsey Smith, Aspirations Incubator program coordinator, about the Northstar program. The program, which is based at UMaine Extension’s Bryant Pond facility, seeks to raise the aspirations of rural youth by providing mentorship and opportunities to volunteer, […]
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The Bangor Daily News talked with Jim Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist, about the wide variety of wasps in Maine. According to Dill, most wasps are not aggressive and really just want to be left alone.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a free workshop and demonstration about mechanical weed management 5:30–7:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at Crystal Springs Farm, 277 Pleasant Hill Road, Brunswick. The workshop includes a tour of no-till tomato plantings, discussion about best practices for mechanical weed management, demonstrations of new tools and presentation of findings from […]
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Centralmaine.com, Morning Ag Clips, the Sun Journal, the Irregular and the Bangor Daily News promoted a live weed management workshop offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 1. “Mechanical Weed Management” will be conducted at Crystal Springs Farm, 277 Pleasant Hill Road, in Brunswick. Participants can register and find more information online. News Break shared […]
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Colt Knight, a state livestock specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, discusses green muscle disease in chicken, turkey and other meat variety birds with the Bangor Daily News. “If I had one of those chickens I’d just cut off the side that had the green meat and eat the rest of the chicken,” Knight […]
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Down East magazine spoke with Rafa Tasnim, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, about a study which revealed that Washington County’s blueberry fields are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state. Tasnim hopes that the methods used in this study will be applicable to […]
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The Irregular, the Bangor Daily News, Morning Ag Clips, Centralmaine.com, the Ellsworth American, the Sun Journal and the Daily Bulldog advanced an online workshop from University of Maine Cooperative Extension for agricultural service providers and farmers interested in farm coaching at 11 a.m. on Sept. 15. “Supporting Farms with Farm Coaching” will introduce a farm coaching model and provide resources that can be used […]
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Larry Tranel, an Iowa State University Extension and Outreach dairy specialist and expert in the economics of efficient milking systems, will be visiting Bò Lait Farm, 414 W. Washington Road, Washington, at 10:30 a.m. and Sweetland Farm, 29 Bessey Ridge Road, Albion, at 1 p.m. on Aug. 24. Tranel is known in the dairy industry […]
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David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and small fruit specialist, talked with the Bangor Daily News about the state’s ban on growing currants and gooseberries. Both species are vectors for white pine blister rust, a virulent fungus which could threaten Maine’s pine forests.
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