UMaine News

Charlie Armstrong of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was interviewed Wednesday on Deb Neuman’s WVOM (103.9) radio segment about small businesses issues.  A cranberry expert, Armstrong shared his perspectives on the cranberry industry in Maine and related small businesses.  In addition, they discussed the support that Cooperative Extension provides to the cranberry and other agricultural […]

Mark Hutton and Caragh Fitzgerald of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty was quoted in a Sunday Kennebec Journal story about Mainers who are saving money on groceries by growing produce in home gardens.

For consumers throughout the state with questions about safe food handling and preparation, leftovers or even recipes and nutrition as the holidays approach, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension team is only a phone call away for research-based answers.

University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was interviewed for a recent Ellsworth American article about rising food prices taxing budget-strapped consumers. McConnon explained that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has predicted a 3-4 percent increase in food prices in 2011, largely due to escalating energy costs. Contact: George Manlove, […]

Research on micro-businesses by University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was cited in a Bangor Daily News op-ed column about how the state’s economy would improve if each of Maine’s 109,560 micro-businesses, or sole proprietorships, could hire just one person. Writer Eloise Vitelli, program director for the statewide Women, […]

As the nation’s farmers increasingly are using the Internet and social media for accessing crop, market and weather reports, communications, and agricultural research, a new tri-state Cooperative Extension collaborative will bring agricultural service providers up to speed on the latest online and social media tools to make their work with farmers more effective.

Richard Kersbergen, UMaine Cooperative Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems, will take part in a multi-state project to help organic dairy farmers better produce and market their milk, according to the website EurekAlert. The 4-year, $2.9 million U.S. Department of Agriculture project, which is being led by the University of New Hampshire, also […]

A UMaine Cooperative Extension kids’ gardening program was the subject of a news item in the Current Publishing newspapers in southern Maine. The Kids Can Grow program, which started in 1999 and has grown to encompass most of Maine and parts of New Hampshire, is now going national through a website. The program, founded by […]

Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator in the Somerset County office in Skowhegan, who co-founded the New England Maple Grading School in 2003, has received this year’s international Golden Maple Leaf Award for developing and running the program. The annual fall event, now called the Maple Grading School, is scheduled through 2014, when […]