Tori Jackson

Tori JacksonProgram Leader, Agriculture & Natural Resources
24 Main Street, Lisbon Falls, ME 04252-1505
Phone: 207.581.8201
Email: tori.jackson@maine.edu

Tori Jackson is Program Administrator of Agriculture and Natural Resources with Cooperative Extension. She has spent most of her career working with farms and other natural resource based businesses throughout Maine with a focus on farm business management and new and beginning farmer education. She serves as co-chair of the Maine Farmer Resource Network, a group of thirty organizations and institutions working together for farm business success.

During her undergraduate and graduate careers, Tori primarily studied fruit and vegetable production and integrated pest management (IPM). She worked at Highmoor Farm, a Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station in Monmouth in various capacities for about 15 years. Her Master’s research and thesis evaluated various organic controls for corn earworm and other lepidopteran insect pests in sweet corn. More recently, her field research has focused on elderberry production.

Education:

  • M.S., Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences. University of Maine, 2004
    Thesis: Alternative Controls for Helicoverpa zea on Sweet Corn: Phytotoxicity and Pollination Inhibition from Direct Silk Applications.
  • B.A., Human Ecology, focus: Plant Science. College of the Atlantic, 2000

Work-related Certificates:

  • 2021, 2017, 2013: Human Subjects Research Certification and Conflict of Interest Training from The Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program
  • 2008-present: Maine Private Pesticide Applicator’s License

Professional Organizations:

  • 2009-present: Member, North East Association of County Agricultural Agents (NEACAA)
  • 2006-present: Member, Maine Association of Agricultural Extension Agents (MAEA)
  • 2008-2012: President, Maine Association of Agricultural Extension Agents (MAEA)
  • 2007-2008: Vice President, Maine Association of Agricultural Extension Agents (MAEA)
  • 2006-present: Member, National Association of County Agricultural Agents (NACAA)
  • 2006-present: Member, American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS)
  • 2012-present: Maine Farmer Resource Network (Chair)
  • 2009-present: New England Fruit & Vegetable Conference Steering Committee