Martha Stewart featured University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of horticulture David Handley in a story about how to grow blackberries. Handley, who is also a vegetable and small fruit specialist, gave his insight on how to properly care for blackberry plants.
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) interviewed Jason Lilley, Maine sustainable agriculture and maple industry educator at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about Maine Maple Sunday. This was the 42nd anniversary of the Maine Maple Producers Association’s celebration. “So there’s a lot more as far as activities and engagement,” Lilley said. “At the same time, […]
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News Center Maine highlighted research led by Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, that found corn flea beetle infestations could cause more damage to crops in New England as the climate warms. A common pest found in the Midwest, the corn flea beetle causes a disease known as Stewart’s […]
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While New England is well known for commodities such as maple syrup, wild blueberries and cranberries, its reputation for sweets extends to another crop: sweet corn. The 2023-24 crop production report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed the region produced just under 3 million tons of corn, of which Vermont contributed approximately half and […]
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News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) covered the University of Maine’s “Battle of the Chefs,” an effort from Sodexo to expand its incorporation of Maine grown grains onto college menus. “College students are the future and planting the seed with them around Maine-grown grain [as] an exciting part of their diet, and a delicious […]
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The Texas Tribune interviewed Ellen Mallory, a professor and specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and School of Food and Agriculture, on Maine’s response to the presence of a group of chemicals known as PFAS. Mallory said the state’s response has been crucial in dealing with PFAS because of the lack of regulations […]
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The Portland Press Herald and News Center Maine reported on an initiative from the University of Maine to build a statewide automated weather station network. The effort will be supported by $3.5 million in Congressionally Directed Spending secured in the federal fiscal year 2024 budget by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King. The project […]
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Adults 60 years and older who attend the group lunches at the Community Cafes in Calais and Milo are invited to participate in a University of Maine research project on the relationship between protein intake and food insecurity among people living in rural Maine. Chesley Ferris is leading the research as part of her graduate […]
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Researchers at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture are seeking taste testers to sample a new seafood product that utilizes squid wings, a byproduct of squid processing, on Nov. 13 at the Sensory Evaluation Center in Hitchner Hall. Graduate student Mallory Perry and professor Denise Skonberg are recruiting people who are at […]
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Yankee Magazine highlighted a trip to France, in which Robert Dumas, food science pilot plant manager at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, participated to learn about scallops. The feature story focused on parallels between Maine and France and the future of the scallop as Maine’s premier seafood.
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