Grower Services - What’s New?
- Degree days for this season are running very low, I would say, as of May 6th!
- There’s a new insecticide this year (Altacor® by DuPont), with a brand new kind of chemistry (i.e. a brand new class of insecticides) that can be used against a broad range of caterpillars. Find out more from this year’s IPM Update pages.
- UMaine Extension has created an online video about how to use and preserve Maine cranberries.
Older Posts:
- 2011 Harvest Stories: 1) Popp Farm (Kennebec Journal): “How very, very cranberry“ 2) UMaine News Release (10/26/11)
- Check out the UMaine Extension site illustrating weeds associated with Maine wild blueberries (we have many–if not all–of the same weeds in common): Maine Wild Blueberry Weed Photos
- Another UMaine Extension website was launched recently as well — the purpose of this one is to assist new farmers in Maine! Check it out! http://extension.umaine.edu/new-farmers/
- Wisconsin’s 2010 cranberry harvest was their second-highest ever. We in Maine can hold our heads up high as well, as 2010 saw our largest ever cranberry harvest (over 29,000 barrels, or 2.9 million+ pounds)! You can link to our Harvest Figures page for a more detailed look at our numbers.
- “Cranberry suppliers look overseas as supply escalates“ (by MEGAN WOOLHOUSE of The Boston Globe – August 9th, 2010).
- August 9th: Check out the relatively new grower cooperative — United Cranberry Growers Cooperative. It is based in Wisconsin but invites independent growers, wherever in the world you may reside, to join them.
- Presentations from the March, 2010 Nova Scotia cranberry conference can be viewed online at www.atlanticcranberry.ca/speakers.html.
Check out the free site called “Maine Ag Trader“ where you can buy, sell, swap, and trade agricultural equipment. Also, from there, you can join their partner site, mefoodtrader.org, in order to try to sell your cranberry produce directly to Maine consumers! [see also the MPBN Story].
2009 Harvest (and other) Stories:
- MPBN’s “Maine Things Considered” [Special thanks to Kathy LaPlant].
- Bangor Daily News [Special thanks to Sid & Sharon Look].
- Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram [Special thanks to Harry Ricker of Ricker Hill Orchards]
- [TV] WLBZ Channel 2 in Bangor [Special thanks to Jasper Wyman & Son, Inc.]
- Some great Television PR: Alton Brown of the Food Network features cranberries on his “Good Eats” program: Part 1 || Part 2
Cranberry questions? Contact Charles Armstrong, Cranberry Professional. University of Maine Cooperative Extension || Pest Management Office || 491 College Avenue || Orono, ME 04473-1295 || Tel: (207) 581-2967 [email: charles.armstrong@maine.edu]
