{"id":20551,"date":"2020-08-19T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=20551"},"modified":"2020-09-30T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:58:27","slug":"talk-the-future-of-farming-building-tools-for-tech-savvy-farmers","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/event\/talk-the-future-of-farming-building-tools-for-tech-savvy-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk – The Future of Farming: Building Tools for Tech Savvy Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This talk is available via Zoom. Registration is required due to security concerns. Please complete the registration form<\/a> to receive the Zoom connection information.<\/p>\n

\"WildSpeakers:<\/strong>
\nLily Calderwood, Extension Wild Blueberry Specialist and Assistant Professor of Horticulture, 91르적
\nSean Birkel, State Climatologist; Research Assistant Professor, 91르적 Climate Change Institute
\nGlen Koehler, Associate Scientist IPM, 91르적 Cooperative Extension<\/p>\n

This talk will focus on a project\u00a0co-led by researchers in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Climate Change Institute\u00a0in collaboration with Maine farmers. Their goal: to listen to farmer needs around weather information and farm management decision support tools, and discuss future capabilities in light of Maine\u2019s changing climate. Lily,\u00a0Sean, and Glen\u00a0will discuss their progress towards providing site-specific temperature, precipitation, frost and heat-stress warnings, cloud-cover\/sunshine, evapotranspiration, and soil moisture forecast and observation values for locations in Maine. The wild blueberry and potato industries already have crop-specific weather stations. Through the project, the team has gained a better understanding of how these crop-specific weather stations can be combined with NOAA gridded weather data to serve more farms in Maine.<\/div>\n
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Lily Calderwood<\/strong>\u2019s research and education program aims to develop whole system approaches to wild blueberry production in Maine. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is at the forefront of her work, which can improve the economic and ecological resilience of farms by incorporating subjects such as fertility, soil health, and plant physiology into pest management. Current research includes a weed survey of wild blueberry fields, tine weeding and cover cropping studies for organic weed management, mulching studies, crop and pest forecasting tools, and foliar fertilizer assessments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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