WALDO, Maine – The 2024-2025 Business Planning for Producers cohort included 20 aspiring, new, and beginning farmers, including four participants from Waldo County. Since 2023, eight new and beginning farmers in Waldo County have participated in this introductory business planning course, with 50% completing a business plan and qualifying for USDA Farm Service Agency borrowers’ […]
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WALDO, Maine – In 2024 and 2025, Midcoast Sustainable Agriculture Program Coordinator Brett Johnson, Assistant Extension Professor, Sustainable Agriculture and Farm Business Management Educator, conducted specialty potato variety trials at the Rogers Farm Forage and Crop Research Facility in Stillwater, generating information on yield and other traits related to performance for 15 potato varieties suitable […]
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WALDO, Maine – In 2024-2025 local in-person program events accessed by Waldo County residents included: a workshop titled Introduction to the Business of Livestock Production delivered at our office in Waldo, the Maine Forage Conference hosted in Waterville, the Maine PFAS Research Tour at Hunter Farm in Unity, a workshop titled How to Prune Mature […]
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WALDO, Maine – According to the 2022 Ag Census, Waldo County has 469 farms in operation, which collectively manage 54,547 acres of farmland. During 2024 UMaine Cooperative Extension supported commercial producers in Waldo County through one-on-one consultation addressing a variety of topics including: pest identification, disease diagnosis, integrated pest management, soil testing, site suitability for […]
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