UMaine News

University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon and George Criner, director of the UMaine School of Economics, were interviewed for a sidebar to a Portland Press Herald business article about how Maine lobsters are bought, sold and priced, a subject that has arisen as a result of the controversy in […]

Dana Morse, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant scientist, was interviewed by KETR-FM, a Texas A&M University-Commerce public radio affiliate of National Public Radio, for an article about Maine’s efforts to increase sea scallop stocks through aquaculture. Morse said farming scallops is challenging because larval scallops take a long time to […]

The Wall Street Journal was among the news outlets to carry an apple crop report by the Associated Press, which interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Renae Moran. Moran said while many orchards in Maine suffered from a late spring frost, if a grower lost only 10 percent of the flowers to […]

University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor Rick Kersbergen was interviewed for a recent Maine Public Broadcasting report on organic dairy research under way in Maine. He discussed a study to see how different grasses fed to cows at organic farms improve or affect the quality of the milk they produce. Kersbergen is one of a […]

University of Maine Cooperative Extension food safety specialist Jason Bolton was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald article about identifying, preparing and grilling various cuts of steak. Bolton described how to identify a properly aged cut and said grass-fed beef usually are more flavorful than corn-fed cows. He also cautioned consumers to use clean utensils […]

Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension entomologist and pollination expert Frank Drummond for a report about his participation in a five-year collaborative study in Maine, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut to help Northeastern fruit growers improve pollination methods, overcome obstacles, and, in Maine, promote the use of wild, native bees by […]

The Norway, Maine, Advertiser Democrat carried an article about an underwater robotic device built by members of Laker Youth Community Action, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H community service group in southern Maine, to monitor lakes for early detection of milfoil and other invasive aquatic plants. The submersible vehicle is framed with PVC pipe […]

In his Maine Gardener column, Maine Sunday Telegram writer Tom Atwell discussed his personal involvement with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Backyard Locavore Day and garden tours Saturday, Aug. 12 in Cumberland County. He credited Extension horticulture coordinator Diana Hibbard for getting the word out, and quoted Cumberland County Extension food preservation specialist Kate […]

Foster’s Daily Democrat reported on a meeting with Maine native, current U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon and University of Maine Cooperative Extension educators Barb Murphy and Frank Wertheim and others in the Partners for a Hunger-Free York County collaborative. They met in Alfred, Maine, to discuss efforts to end hunger in York County […]