The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has updated information about avian influenza (AI) in a bulletin for poultry producers. Anne Lichtenwalner, an associate professor of animal and veterinary sciences, provided the update. AI is a contagious type A influenza virus of birds that occurs […]
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David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist of vegetables and small fruits, spoke with The Ellsworth American for an article about this season’s strawberry crop in Maine. “What we have found so far is that growth is good and pest numbers have been pretty low,” Handley said, adding the winter helped the crop […]
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Ellen Gibson, AgrAbility specialist with Maine AgrAbility — a nonprofit collaboration of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Goodwill Industries Northern New England and Alpha One — is allowing gardens to be more accessible to everyone, regardless of ability, reports the Bangor Daily News. “I think of it similarly to the concepts of universal design […]
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David Fuller, agriculture and non-timber forest products professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension says Maine is a tough place for nuts, the Portland Press Herald reports. For Mainers looking for a nut that is a sustainable choice, Fuller recommends hybrid hazelnuts, though he warns that hazelnuts vary in size and shell thickness and […]
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An event on June 16 at the Lithgow Public Library will feature Kate McCarty, master food preserver for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Centralmaine.com reports. The free workshop will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the program room of Lithgow’s temporary quarters at the Ballard Center, 6 East Chestnut St. and will give […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a University of Maine Cooperative Extension press release announcing it would give away more than 400 cherry tomato plants as part of the One Tomato Project — “to grow healthier communities, one tomato at a time.” Tomato plants will be distributed in June at county food cupboards in Dover-Foxcroft, Guilford […]
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David Yarborough, wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was quoted in an Ellsworth American article about cooling temperatures and the affect they have on blueberry crop pollination by keeping temperature-sensitive bees from pollinating blueberries. “If they had adequate bees, they probably did OK,” said Yarborough. “But I would say conditions are […]
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Anne Lichtenwalner, associate professor of animal and veterinary sciences, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, has updated information about avian influenza (AI) in a bulletin for poultry producers. On June 8, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported a confirmed case of avian flu in Michigan, making it the 21st state in the U.S. affected by […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H in Oxford County hosts its June Jamboree Livestock Clinic from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 13, and from 9 a.m. to noon Sunday, June 14, at Fryeburg Fairgrounds, 1154 Main St., Fryeburg. The clinic, for 4-H club members and leaders, offers sessions on sheering sheep, showing market […]
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Kate Garland, a horticulturist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension program, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article focused on various hunger relief programs happening across the state of Maine. “Farmers don’t have time to donate their extra produce, during market. It’s that time of year when they don’t have a spare moment,” […]
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