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AUGUSTA — Free sessions on weather-based crop management for farmers and service providers and building agricultural leadership in Maine will be held Thursday, Jan. 17, at the Augusta Civic Center.
The programs will be held during the Maine Agricultural Trades Show.
Weather-based tools are a strategy farmers can use to increase resilience to extreme weather. The sessions are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Howard Room and sponsored by the Maine Climate and Agriculture Network, which is organized through UMaine.
Sessions will focus on challenges and opportunities that changing weather in Maine presents for agriculture, as well as a variety of tools to help adapt to weather risks. Individual session topics include Ag-Radar; a tool to inform pest management; efficient irrigation; and a rainfall index insurance program for grassland. Farmers also are invited to share their favorite weather tools during a show-and-tell session.
Pesticide and certified crop adviser credits will available for select sessions. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Erin Roche, 207-949-2490, erin.roche@maine.edu.
In addition, agriculture producers and service providers are invited to a free half-day session from noon to 3 p.m. the same day at the civic center’s, Arnold Room, to discuss building agricultural leadership capacity in Maine.
The purpose of the initial meeting is to develop a framework supporting producers and service providers in advocating for the needs of the Maine agricultural industry. Future sessions will be based on the outcome of the first meeting. The session is free; online registration is requested. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Kathy Hopkins, 207-474-9622; khopkins@maine.edu.
For more than a century, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine’s land and sea grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county. UMaine Extension helps support, sustain and grow the food-based economy. It is the only entity in the state that touches every aspect of the Maine Food System, where policy, research, production, processing, commerce, nutrition, and food security and safety are integral and interrelated.
