WLBZ broadcast a Tuesday report about egg testing procedures conducted at UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Animal Health Lab, under the direction of veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner.  The lab features capabilities to conduct several levels of testing as mandated by state and federal regulations.

Comments from Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Tuesday Bangor Daily News report on the impact of this summer’s weather on Maine’s insect populations.  Dill says that the number of pests — especially mosquitoes — has been reduced this summer because of the dry and warm weather conditions

Contact: Anne Lichtenwalner, 581-2789 ORONO – Consumers can do their part in protecting themselves from potentially contaminated poultry products, including eggs, by using common sense and sanitary food preparation practices. There also is a lot that can be done by Maine’s thousands of chicken owners. Large commercial henhouses, family farms or even small backyard chicken […]

Monday’s Lewiston Sun Journal includes a preview of a Sept. 13 UMaine Cooperative Extension program for western Maine business operators.  Headed up by Extension’s Marc Edwards, the program will provide information and advice about marketing businesses to the tour bus industry that visits that part of the state during the fall foliage season.

The Lewiston Sun Journal highlights a statewide program through which the UMaine Cooperative extension distributes vegetables to food pantries, senior lunches, and outside some Cooperative Extension offices. Barbara Murphy, an Extension educator, says about one in five Maine families aren’t sure where their next meal is going to come from.

The Bangor Daily News reports on presentation by UMaine Cooperative Extension Researcher Dave Handley and members of the Extension’s Master Gardeners Program. The presentation, which includes information about maintaining healthy crops, is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 at the Rogers Farm in Stillwater.

An early spring and a dry, hot summer has led to an early appearance of crops such as pumpkins, UMaine Cooperative Extension Vegetable Specialist Mark Hutton says.

WLBZ 2 mentioned UMaine’s Cooperative Extension in a report about Maine’s dry weather this summer.

Contact: Renae Moran, (207) 933-2100, Ext. 105 MONMOUTH – University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and fruit tree specialist Renae Moran says many Maine apple orchards are seeing light but early harvests this year. “I’m starting to see it with the early varieties and I think it’s going to happen with Macintosh,” says Moran, a […]