News Center Maine highlighted “Maine Farm News” from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, which listed reminders for how to navigate extreme heat across a wide range of agriculture and animal farming practices.
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Maine Public highlighted a new service the state of Maine is launching through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension that will help farmers whose land is contaminated with “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, explore their options for buyout.
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The Sun Journal interviewed David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and cooperating professor of horticulture, on strawberry season. A rainy June last year damaged the strawberry crop, but Handley said this year has the best crops he has seen in a while. The season lasts for about […]
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News Center Maine highlighted the 4-H Tick Project from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The program, currently underway on Swans Island — located off the coast of Mount Desert Island, teaches kids how to protect themselves against ticks carrying diseases. Students from Aroostook County to southern Maine are involved in the free community science […]
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Pamela Hargest, horticulturist specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, talked about garden watering techniques with News Center Maine for a segment titled “Gardening with Gutner.” Hargest said she is more careful to monitor rainfall in her vegetable gardens as opposed to perennial gardens because vegetables need a certain amount of rainfall each week. […]
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WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle) interviewed Jim Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate program administrator in pest management, on the abundance of forest tent caterpillars in Aroostook County this summer. Dill said the caterpillars can defoliate and kill trees over a span of several years and cause roads to get slick if […]
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Bangor Daily News referenced a University of Maine Cooperative Extension newsletter on a group of chemicals known as PFAS written by Caragh Fitzgerald, an associate Extension educator for agriculture and an associate Extension professor. Fitzgerald wrote that uncoated corrugated cardboard is less likely to contain PFAS, and any PFAS in it will likely be diluted […]
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The Portland Press Herald featured comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension associate scientist Glen Koehler in a report from the latest Maine Climate Council meeting on Wednesday, May 29. Koehler said shorter winters — longer growing seasons — and warming temperatures should be an advantage for Maine producers and presented the latest scientific findings […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension launched the Maine Farmcast, a podcast that features weekly conversations with experts from across the country who share insights and advice for both new and seasoned farmers running operations of any size. “This is a way to share conversations around the livestock industry that relate to research, production, nutrition, reproduction, […]
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Harvest Public Media interviewed Lily Calderwood, a wild blueberry specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and a UMaine assistant professor of horticulture, on the effects of solar panels placed over an established field of wild blueberries. Researchers are trying to identify ways in which land can be used to simultaneously grow food and […]
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