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UMaine Cooperative Extension Offers Grain Production Workshop and Field Day

Contact: Richard Kersbergen, 207-342-5971, richardk@umext.maine.edu SIDNEY, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Organic Milk Producers plan a grain production workshop and field day for interested dairy producers on Thursday, August 2 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Those who attend will get a chance to visit farms that have been experimenting […]

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Biomass Research Presentation Set for July 26

Contact: Sandra Neily, 581-2831; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Adriaan VanHeiningen, professor of chemical and biological engineering, will speak to students working on summer biomass research projects on campus at a public forum July 26, from 4-5 p.m. in the Jenness Hall Soderberg Lecture Theater, on”Potential New Bulk Products in the Forest Biorefinery.” The public […]

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UMaine Hosting 2007 USA Masters Track and Field Championships

Contact: Rolland Ranson, (207) 581-1077 / (207) 866-5889; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A thousand athletes, aged 30 to 94, and their families, friends and supporters, soon will arrive at the University of Maine, Orono, for the 2007 USA Track and Field Masters Championships Aug. 2-5. Athletes travel from almost every state in […]

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Maine Grass Farmers Network Offers Pasture Talks

Contact: Richard Kersbergen, 207-342-5971 GORHAM, Me. — Maine Grass Farmers Network (MGFN), a collaboration of University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), will host its first of a series of Pasture Walks on Thursday July 19 at 5 P.M. at the Noon Family Sheep Farm. The walk will […]

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UMaine Sponsors Yankee Woodlot Trails Tree Tour

Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205 SKOWHEGAN, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a tree tour of the Yankee Woodlot Trails on Norridgewock Avenue in Skowhegan, on Friday, August 3 from 10 a.m.-12 noon. Patty Cormier, district forester with the Maine Forest Service, will lead the tour, which will provide an opportunity to see […]

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Starks Farm will Host UMaine Cooperative Extension Goat Enterprise Tour July 21

Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 800-287-1471 FAIRFIELD, Me. — The fifth tour in University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s series of Goat Enterprise Farm Tours will take place on Saturday, July 21 from 10 a.m.-12 noon at Sunny Ridge Farm, 660 Chicken Street in Starks. This tour will focus on raising dairy and meat goats. UMaine Extension’s series […]

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UMaine Cooperative Extension Holds Annual Moon Garden Celebration

Contact: Gleason Gray, 207-942-7396 STILLWATER, ME–University of Maine Cooperative Extension will once again hold its Moon Garden Celebration, a tradition of celebrating the July full moon, on Tuesday, July 24 at Rogers Farm on Bennoch Road in Stillwater. The 6 p.m. event will feature stories, songs and the Moon Garden, a garden with night-blooming plants […]

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Education Commissioner to Open UMaine Conference on Dropout Prevention

Contact: Theresa McMannus, 581-2441 ORONO — Maine Education Commissioner Susan Gendron will open the 2007 Dropout Prevention Summer Institute hosted by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development on Monday, July 23. The institute, being held in room 100 of the D.P. Corbett Business Building and the Memorial Union July 23-24, is open to […]

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Page Farm and Home Museum/Open Farm Day July 22

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Page Farm and Home Museum at the University of Maine will participate in the Sunday July 22 Maine Open Farm Day. More than 80 farms and farm museums around Maine will participate, hosting a variety of events aimed at celebrating Maine’s agriculture industry and its agriculture heritage. […]

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Middle East Expert Set for July 23 Talk on U.S.-Iran Relations

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 BANGOR — Bruce Riedel, a Middle East expert of international stature who serves as Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy, will speak on U.S.-Iran relations in Bangor on Monday, July 23. Riedel will present “U.S.-Iran Relations: Looking into […]

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