Gregory Porter, professor of crop ecology and management, and Rachel Schattman, a professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, were interviewed by the and for an article about warming temperatures driving Maine鈥檚 鈥減otato boom,鈥 but also leading to a variety of factors like increased pest pressure or variable rainfall. 鈥淗ow much of the potato production is impacted depends on the magnitude of these changes and on how variable and inconsistent they are,鈥 Porter said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing this need for farmers to be able to be really nimble,鈥 Schattman said.
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