The Bangor Daily News featured a partnership between University of Maine researchers and Maine organic farmer Sue Hunter, whose land in Unity, Maine, is highly contaminated with toxic PFAS, to determine how much or how little specific crops absorb the toxins. The research is focusing on three specific areas — how PFAS are absorbed by […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Sun Journal shared that the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Animal Health Fund will present a two-day educational event focusing on equine biomechanics, anatomy and the use of technology in the industry. Register and read the full agenda on […]
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The County, MaineBiz and Potato News Today reported that the Maine Potato Board announced that Gregory Porter, professor of agronomy at the University of Maine, would receive the inaugural Maine Potato Industry Recognition Award.
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Food scientists at the University of Maine are seeking taste testers for a new mussel recipe on Wednesday, June 28. Sarah Gundermann, a Master’s of Food Science student in the lab of Professor Denise Skonberg, developed a new marinating and cooking process to prepare ready-to-eat mussels. Testers will spend 15–20 minutes tasting three different mussel […]
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News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily News, MaineBiz, WFVX-TV (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) and Energy News Network reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded $650,000 to a University of Maine project investigating the impacts of climate change on wild blueberry ecosystems and economics.
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Simply Recipes spoke to Kate McCarty, food systems professional at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Lily Calderwood, Extension wild blueberry specialist and assistant professor of horticulture, about best practices for storing blueberries. Calderwood explained the blueberries should not be washed before storing because they are covered in a waxy coating called ‘bloom,’ which fresh […]
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Robert Dumas, food science innovation coordinator at the University of Maine, spoke to the Bangor Daily News about growing a “recipe garden,” which focuses on growing crops for specific dishes or types of dishes, like salsa, pizza, kimchi, sauerkraut or Thai cuisine. “There is always the availability with your garden to grow things unique to […]
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News Center Maine featured potato variety testing at the University of Maine’s Agricultural Research and Development Farm in Presque Isle. The process starts at the UMaine campus in Orono, where potato plants are cross-pollinated in greenhouses, which results in thousands of true potato seeds. After that, researchers and students use those seeds to grow 50,000 […]
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Yanyan Li and Sue Ishaq, researchers in the School of Food and Agriculture at the University of Maine, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News about looking for healthy adults to participate in a 4-week study to examine the health effects of eating steamed broccoli sprouts. For more information about participating, email yanyan.li@maine.edu or […]
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David Yarborough, professor emeritus of horticulture at the School of Food and Agriculture and emeritus wild blueberry specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke to the Portland Press Herald for an article reporting that the size of Maine’s wild blueberry harvest dropped by 26%, or 27.5 million pounds, in 2022 after hitting a […]
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