Cooperative Extension

‘A fishery in a sea of change’ highlights latest American lobster research

Amalia Harrington, a Maine Sea Grant marine Extension associate at the University of Maine, collaborated with other scientists in the National Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI) to publish a report detailing how warming waters impact lobsters.  The researchers compiled a suite of recently published scientific articles and made the information accessible to the nonscientific community.  “A Fishery in […]

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UMaine Extension offers new access for late blight information

University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a new way for producers and gardeners to receive the latest information and alerts about late blight of potatoes and tomatoes.  The Late Blight Hotline from UMaine Extension will send subscribers in the U.S. and Canada text messages with up-to-date late blight information from June 1, 2021 to […]

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BDN speaks with Dill about grubs

The Bangor Daily News talked with Jim Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist, about controlling grubs that destroy lawns. WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) shared the BDN story.

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Media advance ‘Recipe to Market’ online workshop

The Bangor Daily News, Centralmaine.com, The Irregular, The Ellsworth American and the Sun Journal advanced the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s upcoming online workshop “Recipe to Market.”  More information about the program, which will be held at 9 a.m. May 14, is online.

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UMaine Extension offers ‘Recipe to Market’ online workshop May 14

University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer an online workshop for entrepreneurs and farmers interested in starting a home-based, specialty food business in Maine from 9 a.m.–noon May 14.  “Recipe to Market” is a multidisciplinary program with topics including business basics, an overview of the specialty food industry and product development process, licensing and regulations, […]

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Wilson, Clark honored as outstanding UMaine employees for 2021

The University of Maine has announced that Laura Wilson and Sally Clark have received two of UMaine’s most prestigious employee awards.  Wilson, who works for UMaine Cooperative Extension as a 4-H science professional, will be recognized as the 2021 Outstanding Professional Employee. An administrative support supervisor for Auxiliary Services, Clark is the 2021 Outstanding Classified […]

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Media cite tick lab services in report of CDC awareness campaign

Centralmaine.com, the Penobscot Bay Pilot and the Sun Journal cited the University of Maine Tick Lab’s identification and testing services in a story about a new tick awareness and Lyme disease prevention campaign launched by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. VillageSoup cited UMaine Extension’s resources in a story about reducing the risk […]

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