Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

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UMaine research shows animal personalities change what role critters play in building the world around them

Just like people, animals have personalities — and, like people, these individual differences in behavior may determine what role an animal plays in building the world around it. “Mutualisms” are symbiotic relationships between animals: clownfish keeping stinging sea anemones clean in exchange for protection, or bats providing nutritious guano to pitcher plants as they provide […]

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Handley discusses how snow helps plants with News Center

News Center Maine interviewed David Handley, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist, about how snow can help strawberries, blueberries and other crops and plants. Snow can serve as an insulator, said Handley, who spoke to News Center Maine at Highmoor Farm, a Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station in Monmouth. […]

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Wiscasset Newspaper highlights Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

The Wiscasset Newspaper referenced the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station at the University of Maine’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture in the article “Home gardening on rise on peninsula.” Bob Boyd, co-owner of Boothbay Region Greenhouses, said the station is the best place to go for soil sampling. Sample kits and testing […]

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Servello named dean of College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station

Frederick Servello has been named dean of the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and director of the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station, effective July 1. Servello has been serving as interim dean and director since Oct. 1. A national search was conducted to fill the position of Edward Ashworth, […]

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