UMaine research into the lily leaf beetle was mentioned in a story about the beetle on the website for The Daily News of Batavia, N.Y. The story noted that UMaine has done research to identify lilies that have resistance to the beetle, and also mentioned research into botanical insecticides. A University of Maine Cooperative Extension […]
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The Lehigh Valley Master Gardeners blog, which is posted on the website of the Pennsylvania newspaper The Morning Call, noted the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s website of images of monarch butterflies. The blog post was about the disappearance of milkweed habitat and its potential impacts on the monarch population. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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In Maine and elsewhere, the field of seaweed cultivation is experiencing increased interest from aquaculturists, harvesters, researchers and those in the business of making products from marine macroalgae. This is due to some innovative research being conducted in the region, and because Maine now has the first and only commercial kelp aquaculture operation in the […]
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Booth and exhibitor spaces for the first Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show coordinated by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has sold out, according to an article in the Ellsworth American. The Governor’s Regional Conference on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on Nov. 1-2 is being organized by a coalition of public and private […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 2 (WLBZ) interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems Richard Kersbergen for a report on a UMaine Extension research collaboration funded by a $2.9 million grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to further improve the quality, quantity and marketability of organic milk in […]
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Frank Wertheim, a home horticulture specialist with the University of Maine extension in York County, was interviewed for a Portland Press Herald gardening column about tomatoes. Wertheim said there isn’t really too much gardeners can do at this point to help the tomatoes recover from the recent rainy weather, but he did share the good […]
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A Bangor Daily News article reported that Maine’s first lady Anne LePage will visit military children from Maine at an Operation Military Kids (OMK) camp located in Gilead. OMK is a collaborative summer camp program of University of Maine Cooperative Extension, 4-H, military families and youth, veterans and others. OMK is designed to provide youth […]
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The state Department of Environmental Protection’s Maine Healthy Beaches program, administered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was the subject of a Bangor Daily News article in which environmentalists complained that communities with beaches with unhealthful water quality often don’t post public warnings. A DEP spokesperson said the program is a data-collection and assessment […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist Jim Dill was interviewed by the Morning Sentinel for a gardening status update. The summer’s extreme weather fluctuations have caused problems for some vegetable gardens, but Dill says hay is growing exceptionally well. The report also appeared in the Portland Press Herald. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Several news organizations, including Bangor TV stations Channel 2 (WLBZ), Channel 7 (WVII) and Channel 8 (WAGM) in Presque Isle, carried reports about 35 organic grain and dairy farmers from Denmark who this week are visiting several Maine farms as part of an international exchange organized by University of Maine Cooperative Extension sustainable agriculture specialist […]
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