Rick Kersbergen, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and professor, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “When it comes to kids and tractors, it’s safety first.” Kersbergen runs a series of farm machinery safety certification workshops around the state. “People think it’s this really pastoral scene with a tractor operator driving […]
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University of Maine experts Mark Hutton, Ellen Mallory and Lily Calderwood were interviewed for the Portland Press Herald article “As Maine’s climate warms, what’s on the menu likely will change.” Dramatic fluctuations in temperatures and rainfall, increasingly acidic oceans, new plant and shellfish diseases and insect pests may challenge what farmers can grow in Maine […]
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Mainebiz reported the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute has been selected to receive a $123,735 workforce development grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fund a pilot project creating an aquaculture certificate program. The project, “Aquaculture Workforce Development: Certificate in Applied Sustainable Aquaculture,” is designed to address aquaculture industry workforce needs by […]
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Steven Johnson, University of Maine Cooperative Extension crops specialist, was interviewed for The County article, “The pesticide Maine potato farmers use to control disease is being banned around the world.” There have been recent national and international changes in the regulation of the fungicide chlorothalonil, so growers may want to start transitioning to using newer […]
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Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a new study that found variation in lobster molt timing has been increasing in recent years and is related to changing ocean temperatures in the Gulf of Maine. The study was prompted by an extreme shift in timing of lobster landings in 2012, when they landed […]
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Morning Ag Clips previewed a University of Maine Cooperative Extension beef quality assurance and low-stress cattle handling workshop to be held 5:30–7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at Findview Farm in Gorham. UMaine Extension livestock specialist Colt Knight will lead the workshop on topics including differences between grass- and grain-fed beef, key issues with Maine-raised beef cattle […]
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Darren Ranco, a professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Maine Public report about how Maine tribes are adapting to climate change, which threatens cultural traditions. Native American tribes in Maine face environmental challenges, such as changes in natural resources, and pollution and contamination […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center story about Carl Huntsberger, a researcher and lobsterman who recently earned his master’s degree in marine biology from UMaine. Huntsberger grew up lobstering on the Maine coast, and after completing his bachelor’s degree in 2012, worked at a nonprofit research lab on Cape […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Bonnie Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine, for the article “Nazi POWs may have lived better at this Down East camp than their Passamaquoddy neighbors.” Seventy-five years ago, more than 200 German prisoners of war were brought to a camp in Washington County near […]
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The Washington Post cited expertise by Sonja Birthisel, a postdoctoral scholar of weed ecology at the University of Maine, in the article “Whether or not Roundup is safe, the gardener has better options.” More than 18,000 plaintiffs are suing Monsanto, the maker of the herbicide Roundup, alleging cancers related to the product, while the company […]
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