March 19, 2025 Attendees: Amber Lambke – Board Member (seat #1), Designee of the University of Maine’s President Donald Marean – Board Member (seat #2), Designee of the Chancellor of the University of Maine System Amanda Beal – Board Member (seat #3), Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry Commissioner Nick Smith – Board Member […]
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December 5, 2025 Attendees Board Members Donald Marean – Board Member (seat #2), Designee of the Chancellor of the University of Maine System (virtual) Amanda Beal – Board Member (seat #3), Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry Commissioner Nick Smith – Board Member (seat #4), Maine Farm Bureau Jeannie Tapley – (Seat #6), Maine […]
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Budget Summit August 23, 2024 Attendees: Richard Rhodes III – Northeastern Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors Leigh Hallett – United State Department of Agriculture Zachary Schmesser – District Representative for Congressman Jared Golden Edie Smith – Regional Representative for Senator Angus King Carol Woodcock – State Office Representative to Senator Susan Collins […]
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The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Maine corn, forage seeding, fresh market sweet corn, green pea, hemp, potato, soybean, spring barley, spring oats, and spring wheat growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2023 crop year is March 15. Growers also have until March 15 to apply for […]
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Attention Growers of Tree Fruit, Small Fruit, and Grapes: The cold snap that occurred here in the northeast on February 3-4, 2023 MAY have caused you to sustain crop injury on tree fruit, small fruit, and grapes. Your insurance agent needs to be contacted ASAP. Contact them EVEN IF you aren’t sure if you have damage […]
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The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) reminds Maine apple and blueberry growers that the final date to apply for crop insurance coverage for the 2023 crop year is November 20. Current policyholders who wish to make changes to their existing policies also have until November 20 to do so. Growers are encouraged to visit their […]
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RMA Revises Dates for the Pasture, Rangeland and Forage and Apiculture Insurance Programs Agricultural producers will now have until December 1st to make coverage decisions and complete reporting activities for the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Pilot Insurance Program (PRF) and Apiculture Pilot Insurance Program (API). The USDA’s Risk Management Agency is making changes to these two […]
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The grant supporting the UMaine Extension Crop Insurance Education Program will be ending soon (8/31/21). While we hope that we may find support for this program in the future, we will be taking a break in providing services for the foreseeable future.
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USDA Updates Pandemic Assistance for Livestock, Poultry Contract Producers and Specialty Crop The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is updating the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 (CFAP 2) for contract producers of eligible livestock and poultry and producers of specialty crops and other sales-based commodities. CFAP 2, which assists producers who faced market disruptions in […]
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Producers Can Now Hay, Graze and Chop Cover Crops Anytime and Still Receive Full Prevented Planting Payment Agricultural producers with crop insurance can hay, graze or chop cover crops for silage, haylage or baleage at any time and still receive 100% of the prevented planting payment. Previously, cover crops could only be hayed, grazed or […]
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