WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) quoted Sean Birkel, Maine’s state climatologist and a research assistant professor at the University of Maine, and Ellen Mallory, an associate professor with the Cooperative Extension and the School of Food and Agriculture at UMaine, in a report on Maine’s climate future. The average temperature in Maine has risen by […]
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The Forecaster interviewed Griffin Dill, a pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article on a woman who has become an educational activist after being bitten by a lone star tick and developing a red meat allergy. Patty O’Brien Carrier was bitten by the tick in August while working in […]
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Morning Ag Clips and the Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel published a University of Maine announcement about an online Maine hay directory offered by the UMaine Cooperative Extension. Consumers can use the resource “to find quality feed for their animals,” said Rick Kersbergen, an Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems, and sellers can list […]
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Fiddlehead Focus reports the University of Maine Cooperative Extension is one of a number of organizations partnering to create an agriculture policy platform with input from farmers. The goal is to create a policy platform that will create farmer profitability and retention, and inform the next governor and the legislature about the needs of farmers […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension offers the online Maine hay directory as a means to connect buyers and sellers of Maine hay products. “It is important for livestock farmers to find quality feed for their animals,” says Rick Kersbergen, Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems. “Quality forages are the backbone of any feeding […]
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Fiddlehead Focus previewed the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Agricultural Field Day at UMaine’s Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle. The free event, from 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Aug. 8, is open to all agricultural providers and will include presentations on topics like potato cultivation, nutrient management and late blight control, Fiddlehead Focus reports. UMaine presenters […]
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Gabriel Frey will demonstrate the ancient tradition of brown ash and sweetgrass basketry at an artist showcase 10–11 a.m. Aug. 1, in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts. Frey, a 13th-generation Passamaquoddy basketmaker, also will share new directions that he’s taking the tradition. Frey specializes in pack and utility baskets. He […]
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The Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) at the University of Maine has received an $849,000 grant from the Maine Department of Education to continue its Early Start Maine program. Early Start Maine is an early intervention model that provides training, consultation and ongoing support statewide to providers working with young children ages […]
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The Mount Desert Islander and VillageSoup previewed talks by University of Maine researchers Kim Huguenard and Laura Rickard about the effects of storm surge July 18 and 19. The first talk will take place at the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary from 5—7 p.m. July 18, according to the MD Islander. The second talk will take place […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Anne Lichtenwalner, an associate professor of animal and veterinary sciences and the director of the University of Maine Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, for an article about livestock parasites. In Maine, the two most common zoonotic parasites — those able to move between livestock and humans — are Ascaris suum (roundworm) and […]
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