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Salmonella scare across nation

Lack of ample locally produced feed contributed to Maine’s demise in brown egg production years back. And now, the poor quality of feed in Iowa and other states has led Maine producer Jack DeCoster to be ridiculed by national media for salmonella in eggs and chicken production with re-

calls in 22 states of millions of eggs and chickens. DeCoster’s ownership of rat infested feed mills is said to be one cause for the food poison nationwide. Austin “Jack” Decoster has been the poster boy for a bad egg business in Maine and other states for years now and he was called be-

fore Congress to address the seriousness of the charges filed in courts in many states. A formula of industrial agriculture with ample fodder and intense food production will equal excellent food production is only as good as the care taken to rear such livestock of any kind. A simple irony.

Attendance was up at most fairs giving fair associations a boost in earnings and helping farmers with premiums for bringing in animals and equipment. The usual midways were great fun for kids and entertainment shows among the best in recent years. The advent of the digital camera has improved the photography entrants 100% with the example above shown at Piscataquis Valley Fair. Other photos are shown within our pages.

No predictions for weather this good this season were possible. As is the case with Skowhegan Fair, one day of rain did happen traditionally and also at Union Fair but many were without poor weather all summer long.

State fairs 2010 photographs inside

Summer 2010 - Amish hay, stack and dry. Sharon Green picture, Easton, Maine, Aroostook

Water supply Some 1500 cases of salmonella were recorded in numerous states in September prompting the FDA to close chicken farm operations by two farmers in Iowa at various facilities and was the cause of a recall of half a billion eggs delivered in almost half of all US states. Listed causes for farm closings were rodents, wild birds, bugs and holes in the walls of chicken houses, some of which allowed manure to exit the buildings. Escaped

chickens tracking manure over feed, wildlife entering and exiting chicken houses, mice, live flies, workers working without changing clothing on a scheduled ba- sis, wild birds flying in and out of hen houses, manure too deep in houses, maggots, manure in and outside of buildings were also noted as violations for actions taken against the farmers.

Maine farmer linked to causes Water specialists at the university and in private industry have cited this as an extra dry year for precip but not a complete drought year as some imagine. Clear Water Laboratory in Newport cited reports from testing they normally do for farmers and home owners over the course of the year as testing out relatively dryer than normal but it was not a full drought year. “A lot of areas are worse than others”, said Marc Hein. Aroostook for instance had areas in the crown of Maine that were pleas- antly warm and excellent growing weather mixed with good rains. Crops are expected to be excellent there.

That fact is also proven in hay coming out of southern Aroostook that is excellent. Hardly falling into the cate- gory of “Aroostook Hay” - the type of hay too busy potato farmers put up later in the season when spud plant- ing delays getting in good June crops. The hay season this year has been extended by earlier spring grass grow-

ing temperatures and sun to make for a bumper crop. Hardly the case last year when June rains caused shortages statewide. Things along the coast are made difficult regardless due to ocean

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Regarding the lev- els of water supply one local homeowner with a dug well encased in cement tile - a normal ten foot deep well was measured in mid Au- gust and showed 4 feet lost, or just 6 feet remained use- ful to the household supply.

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Common to many Maine towns in the past, local dairy farms put milk into containers and delivered them to homes, 7 days a week. At the start, tin containers, then glass bottles and even- tually many dairies used cardboard cartons. The Bordeaux Dairy began in 1882 on Somes Sound, Mt. Desert. It remained in the same family until it was purchased by an employee, John Fernald, who later sold it to Grant’s Dairy in 1987. The Bordeaux Dairy was the largest on Mt. Desert Island and this wagon is at the Bangor museum established by Galen Cole. The museum is full of hundreds of things.

Youth Development Center into Agricultural training Photos by Emily Adams from Penquis Review

For many years before expansion of the youth center at Charleston, seasonal produce and livestock meats were purchased by the state locally for feeding inmates. In recent years produce has been produced there as well. Emily Adams caught up with Ron Perry, pictured, at Piscataquis Valley Fair, where the center competes for ribbons on behalf of the youth housed there with green thumbs.

Realizing an original mission of the center in Charleston, Ron Perry began gardens with youth help as part of his role as special education teacher for the state operated facility in 2005. During those years, bright shiny vegetables were taken in to the local fair in Dover-Foxcroft and many won first and second place ribbons, as represented in the picture below.

With tribute to this hard work, the staff placed a framed representation honoring this excellent agricultural edu- cational effort in the lobby at the f acility as a tribute to the youth who have taken to the diligent tasks of weed- ing, fertilizing and harvesting good vegetables and have benefited greatly from this regimen and training.

Water Supply That is a significant loss or 40 percent of total average supply for that homestead. Some livestock farmers short of grazing land in Cen- tral Maine were compelled to feed out hay when fields burned up. An influx of growth in late August brought back some grass in time for flushing for livestock breeding seasons.

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National Institute of Agronomic Research of France (INRA in French), the same Institute that put up the extremely successful selection scheme of the Lacaune sheep breed, now has 100% working genomic research ongoing to find markers for milk production, as well as fat and protein. It will take a few years before having some very concrete results. - from Yves M. Berger University of Wisconsin-Madison Spooner Ag. Research Station Phone: 715/635-3735 This augurs well for milk sheep producers here in Maine as such data, when finally applied to those East Friesian sheep here in the region can speed the blood testing of pureness to broods and rams now living in Maine. The House Agriculture Committee passed the Veterinary Services Investment Act in mid September. This bill would establish a competitive grant program at USDA to support efforts to increase access to veterinary care in underserved areas. “Rural areas are facing a critical and growing shortage of large animal veterinarians. These veterinarians are the first lines of defense against animal disease and a crucial player in ensuring the safety of our food. This bill will encourage veterinarians to serve these areas where their skills are needed," said the Ag Committee. The Veterinary Services Investment Act now moves to the Senate for consideration. Contact Maine’s Senators Snowe and Collins on this and the following pending legislation in Congress soon. Report Notes Job Losses If Estate Tax Returns - A new study by the American Family Business Foundation indicates that as many as 1.5 million additional jobs could be lost if Congress allows the Federal Estate Tax to return next year. Under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (EGTRRA), the estate tax expired at the end of 2009 but will return in 2011 at a rate of 55 percent on all assets over one-million dollars. The study concludes that if the estate tax were reinstituted at a 65 percent rate, more than 1.6 million jobs would be lost. If Congress takes no action and the estate tax returns to the pre-EGTRRA rate of 55 percent, between 1.4-million and 1.5-million jobs would be lost. Numerous national agricultural organizations have asked for Senate support in passing permanent and meaningful estate tax relief legislation. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released $1,376,054 in emergency contingency funding this month to help low-income homeowners and renters meet their home energy needs though the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). This funding is in addition to the more than $59 million that was allocated for Maine for Fiscal Year 2010 and will help hard-working families and seniors heat their homes during the winter months ahead. Readers needing such help are encouraged to contact their town office for information to meet the criteria for such assistance.

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Today was the first time I had the opportunity to read your newspaper and I found it very informative. However, I was disap- pointed to see the joke enti- tled Amish Wisdom which stereotyped Muslims. When I read a joke about a race or religion, I substitute my own and it no longer is funny to me; only hurtful. I checked the web and learned that one in every five humans on earth is Muslim. In the United States, there are about ten million Muslims. Not all are extremists. Most are ordinary people living their lives as best they can. I assume you intended no harm when you published this joke and I will continue to read your newspaper. Just want to remind you of the effect of stereotyping. It has a negative connotation for me and many others as well. - Judy Cirillo

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We came across this quote electronically and loved it. Coming as a former veteran and modern agriculturalist, the real meat and potatoes of this century, we hope, is set upon the commonality we all share with eking a better life. The Maine Department of Agriculture has a pet phrase we also like, “Get Real, Get Maine”. It speaks volumes. Just what is broken? Our attitudes or our facts?

The challenges of farming as anyone knows who partakes in that career is not just weather, markets, the economy, it is also food security. I wonder if folks remember a rift betwixt the Brits and Argentina in the last decade. Not the Falklands, but the banana backlash of certain South American vs British interests in the lowly banana. It (bananas) is so easy to infect whole societies so simply and cause plague, famine. This is not to couch fear in the banana, only to take the example and bring it down to earth. We need to get better, Maine and America, in all things. This is not to say that the USA and Canada are not the world’s breadbasket and that we do not feed the world at every opportunity, only to say that we can get better. We can do even more to provide even better food and everyone knows it. It starts right in your own back yard. Lack a yard: your window sill, the city roof, in among some flowers on the south patch of lawn. I hate dirt farming but I like to eat.

They say the dirt, the loam, in the Ukraine is among the deepest richest patch of good ground Europe has. It is highly underused and does not do what it should to help feed the middle east, eastern Europe etc. These things have to change. As a sheep farmer with easy maintenance food on the field day in and day out, perhaps it seems tawdry to knock other farmers and farming as a career choice but it is something anyone can learn and profit from by not just filling a gut, we only wish we discovered it sooner. WGS

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The boss got me out of bed last week and wanted to know if I wanted to ride with him up to the county. “Are you bugging me?” I didn’t take long to scrub down and grab a couple Buds know- ing he’d stop at Dunkin and I’d have a paper bag. So I was all set. It wasn’t too far up and we redid the Patten run of paper drop offs. He said he forgot the hardware store last trip so he ran in for that and we drove by the Logging Museum and found out there was bean hole bean supper the next Saturday so we both hit the same note saying that should be a hoot, toot. Fig- ured he’d hit that this year. There is something about Finch Hill no matter which side of the road you slow down to view. Just mother earth’s magical treats. I’ve seen it many times in my early days as a hunter gath- erer so I guess with the dry July, we may have a poor leaf peep this year....folks smart enough among the living ought to take Finch Road sometime to hit Patten town for the fun of it. North view of Pamola bass ack- wards, sure makes the north view of the crown of Maine a working stiff’s reason for living a done deal.

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This letter is in regard to “Amish Wisdom,” in the LET- TERS section of your summer issue. I enjoy reading your newspaper, so I was surprised to see such an ugly “joke” making fun of Muslims. Would you be so willing to publish a “joke” about stingy Jews or pedophile Catholic priests or lecherous Mormons with multiple wives? I’m sure the Amish do not appreciate being portrayed as bigots in the same issue where they are promoting their new store in Unity. Lastly, the Muslim community buys a significant amount of goats and sheep from small local farmers in New England and bigoted jokes on their behalf certainly does not create an atmosphere where they would feel welcome in Maine or particularly inclined to do business with people who think it is funny to encourage them to drink out of feces laden water. Seriously, cut out the bigotry – you have a wonderful publication that I look forward to reading each issue. Bigotry is ugly and ignorant and the guy who sent the joke “John in Sacramento” can keep his humor on the west coast. - Jessica Masse

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Levity - portal 911 - has a short fuse these days. Mainely Agriculture came across a different sort of joke and published iit last issue and one more time below condensed. One cut up happened to be Moslem, the other Amish. The joke itself made a complete circle, as in life, and in publishing it, response dem- onstrated that some people can take a joke, others not. The Moslem's ignorance was defended by several Mainers after it was published and the newspaper not. No Amish person said anything was offensive about the joke as it centered on the ignorance of this par- ticular Moslem not heeding the Amish man's well spo- ken advice. The intention of our published joke in these days of what is and what is not PC, is that, if the Mos- lem man cannot listen to the Amish man giving him advice, will he ever listen to anybody? Even when it is in his interest to listen as it might affect his good health? We could have changed the joke to a neighbor say, and a

conceited paper boy and left it white washed, but we did not write the joke and rhe- torically it was an example of the circle of life. Those who do, those who do not, those who listen and those who refuse to listen. In the thrust of this joke, obviously the Moslem refused to listen. I too, like those who criti- cised running this joke, do not condemn all Moslems who are good citizens in this or any country with such a joke that was simply centered on one man, one dolt. It matters little of what faith, color, etc. any dolt may be, only that a dolt is a dolt and can be a laughing matter. Aptly said by Will Rogers until the shoe drops.

We do appreciate all views and welcome letters to the editor as this is a farming newspaper and we know of no farmer refraining from telling a good joke no matter whose feathers are ruffled. As regards the crux of ter- rorism in today’s world, the choice of which century to kick back to and stop the clock, the Amish have the right one and I am afraid the 12th, not the 19th just doesn’t wash for the planet. No word harm intended. WGS

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It was a habit that served her well, and in 1960 paid off in a big way. That year my dad was diagnosed with kidney failure and given less than a year to live. There was no cure, and my parents were advised to start planning for the day he would die.

Three years old at the time, my recollections are that my strong Daddy could no longer pick me up and carry me. That he did not go to work very often, and spent his days in bed. I noticed Mom took over all the driving and occasionally pulled off the road so Dad could vomit. Mom and Dad sold their house and used the proceeds to buy a four-unit apartment house with the plan that Mom, my sister and I would live in one unit and live off the rents of the other three. The plan was for my mother to work part time until my sister and I were old enough for school, then she would work full time. Until Dad’s illness, she had been a stay home Mom. After her tutored at home high school, Mom trained as an x-ray technician, but had not worked in years. She began to take temp jobs to beef up her skills and to develop a network of potential employers when the inevitable day arrived.

At one of those early temp jobs, the x-ray machine broke. An extended period of down time ensued, and Mom went to the magazine rack in the doctor’s lobby for something to read. She passed over the popular magazines of the day after finding an out of date medical journal. “This looks like something good for my mind!” she thought. In an article about physicians in Boston conducting experimental surgery, she learned of the world’s first kidney transplants. At the time of the writing, the doctors were looking for volunteers. Her pulse quickened. As she read on, she discovered there was a prerequi- site. The volunteers had to have an identical twin. Dad happened to have an identical twin. brother.

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insecure about her background. She grew up in a blue collar family where neither her mother or father finish

At age 19, she married my father, the handsome son from a wealthy family. Her beauty and charm trumped all the debutantes in town, and swept Dad off his feet. She thought she had it made and that all her fears would go away. Money and posi- tion, however, would not erase her feelings of inferi- ority. Those feelings were intensified instead. The con- trast between her education and her in-laws with professional degrees was intimi- dating. Mom wanted to fit in, join the discussions, be an authority in her own right. In short, she wanted to feel important in her new family, and she realized that she needed more knowl- edge. Determined to find a way to reduce her education deficit, Mom threw herself into reading. Any subject ap- pealed to her at first, and overtime she found her fa- vorites and pursued them to excellence. One thing she had no time for was fiction.

At that point Mom ran to the nearest phone and di- aled Boston until she got one of those doctors on the line. “Yes,” he replied, “we are still looking for volunteers. Send me your husband and his brother.” That night they went to visit my Uncle Ralph, who said, “To save your life, absolutely! Yes, you may have one of my kidneys.”

I share this story because Mom developed a lifelong habit of reading non-fiction because she wanted to im- press her in-laws and other people who intimidated her. In the end, her habit saved my dad’s life. He became the 12 th person in the world to have a kidney transplant and live. And, I got Dad for 18 more years.

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Our information published about various milking animals last issue brought out questions about sheep milking breeds. We would like to encourage any discussion of Agriculture for other readers interested in the same and other issues.

I live in Caribou. I was wondering what breeds you used in your dairy. I have had sheep for meat purposes in the past. I had a dorset/rambouillet cross ewe that gave me 30 lb. twin lambs, at 35 days, every 6.5 months. She had an udder like a holstein. I had to keep the buck away from her after 4 lambings in about 2 years just to give her a break. I am considering the dorset/rambouillet cross, dorset/tunis cross, katahdin cross, or st croix cross. I would like to try to get very heavy milking ewes from these breeds without going to the dairy breeds to get the heavy milking. Since this is just for my families use, not a commercial operation, I think I can do something like this.

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Lacune and Sardi milksheep and/or East Friesian. But standing alone, these wooly sheep have great yields not crossed to milk sheep rams. My composites - created over 12 years - came out of Katahdins, Dorset, Suffolk, Texel and Targhee. I had a few Oxfords and so, that many years later, they have a smidgen of each in the foundation broods I have left. I have some Black Welsh Mountain/Romney crossed to the EF ram; some Icelandic, Romney, and keep two Cheviot. Finally, I have pure Katahdins that I have been crossing and also some Katahdin/Dorset sisters of a Katahdin/Dorset brute. Magoo is the EF ram. So, yes, a Dorset/Ramboulliet cross makes sense. So does Tunis and others

across the country are crossing them to East Friesian sires. With Tunis, I would go for pure breds to start and cross them to a milk sheep ram to improve the Tunis average yield. Dorset you likely would not have to do that if you stay with milky purebred individuals alone without using a milk sheep ram. Over the years studies I have read indicates three breeds are the best for lactation yield Dorset, Suf- folk and Targhee. WGS

You are the third person to quiz me about milk sheep recently and what to cross them with. Your outstanding individuals you mention are like human beings and sheep. Use that as your starting point. A Dorset cross with a Ram- bouillet would mitigate the complexity of Rambouillet shearing and they are tough to do. As you know, the French use Ram- bouillet as milk sheep and likely cross them with a

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OK. Admit it. You all too often find yourself serving your kids or grandkids those deli- ciously rich, high calorie foods that they love at the expense of healthful foods that they don’t like.

If this describes you, welcome to the club of people who have what nutrition researcher Sheryl Hughes and colleagues might classify as an “indulgent” feeding style. Hughes is based at the ARS Children’s Nutrition Re- search Center at Baylor Col- lege of Medicine where she’s an assistant professor of developmental psycholo- gy. She is taking a close look at the feeding styles of parents and other caregivers to learn more about how these styles influence a three-to five-year-old’s attitudes toward food and eating and affect childhood obesity.

“ ”If we know more about the feeding styles in these formative years and their relation to childhood obesity,” Hughes said, “then we may be better able to inter- vene, retrain parents and kids, and help stop the childhood obesity epidem- ic.” Right now, 32 percent of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight or obese. Hughes is examin- ing two “permissive” feeding styles - “indulgent” and nutritionally neglectful “uninvolved” - and two styles that offer more structure - “authoritarian” (a highly controlling approach in which kids are given no choices) and “authoritative” (parents choose what’s served, but kids choose what’s eaten). In one early study, Hughes and colleagues- worked with data from 718 low-income white, Hispanic and black parents of three to

five-year-old preschoolers in Texas and Alabama. Parents filled out Hughes’s feeding-styles question- naire. Kids’ heights and weights were measured to determine their BMI, or body mass index - an indica- tor of body fat. Among other findings, the team determined that the “indulgent” feeding style was significantly associated with higher child BMI. Hughes, along with Theresa Nicklas of the Houston Center and other co investi- gators, document the study in a 2008 article in the Jour- nal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. If heeded, the research may help shape meal-time parenting for the better, given increasing a better parenting.

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Bridgton Farmers’ Market, every Sat, 9-1, November, December indoors at the Community Center. Holiday meal focus, shopping, gift baskets, with usual seasonal items. http://brigtonfarmersmarket.com/ and Facebook: Bridgton Maine Farmers/ Market.

Brunswick Winter Farmers’ Mar- ket , every Sat, 9-12:30, Nov thru April indoors at the Fort Andross, 14 Maine St.. (giant mill bldg. at end of street)

West Cumberland Winter Market, every Sat, 10-2, Nov thru March at Skill- ings Greenhouses on Route 100. cumberlandfarmersmarket.org/

Falmouth Winter Market , every Wed., 9-12:30, Nov thru March indoors at the facilities of Allen, Sterling and Lothrop on Route 1 in Falmouth. cumberlandfarmersmarket.org/

Portland Winter Market , every Sat, 10-1, Dec thru April 185 Free Street. www.portlandmainewintermarkket.com/

Farmington Farmers’ Market, every Sat., 10-noon, Farmington Grange hall, Bridge St. Contact: Richard Marble, [email protected], 491-6166.

Farmington: Western Maine Farm- ers’ Market, preorder online and pick up your order once a week in Farmington. Visit our web site for ordering. www.westernmainemarket.com

Gardiner Farmers’ Market, lst and 3rd Wed., 2-6 Nov thru April, at Christ Church, corner of Dresden and Church Streets across from the Common. www.GardinerFarmersMarket.org

Downtown Waterville Farmers’ Market, every 3rd Thur., 2-4, Dec thru April, downtown in the Concoourse parking lot along Appleton St & Main Street. www.watervillefarmersmarket.org

Knox County Camden Farmers’ Market, 2nd and

4th Sat., 9-noon Nov thru April, at Knox Mill conference room, enter on Washington Street, next to Sage Market. www.camdenfarmersmarket.org

State of Maine Cheese Company Farmers’ Market in Rockport, every Sat. 9-noon, 461 Commercial Street.

Washington Grange Farmers’ Mar- ket, Sat 10-1, moves inside in October for weekly market through mid-December. Further Winter season TBA, monthly thru April. Location: Evening Star Grange 31 Old Union Rd. (off Rte. 220). Contact: Sha- ron Turner, 845-2140.

European Farmers’ Market, in Ban- gor every sat., 9-noon, Sunnyside Green- house, 117 Buck Str., across from Auditorium parking lot.

Orono Farmers’ Market, 2nd and 4th Sat., 9-noon, Dec to April in municipal parking lot between Pine and Mill Streets. www.OronoFarmersMarket.org

Bath Farmers’ Market, 1st & 3rd Sat., 9-noon, Nov thru Aril, Bath United Church of Christ, 150 Congress St. www.bathfarmersmarket.com/

Midcoast Winter Farmers’ Market, in Topsham, every Sat., 9-12, Nov thru April, Topsham Grange Hall, Pleasant St. Contact: Cathy Karonis, 729-1872.

Skowhegan Farmers’ Market, 1st and 3rd Sat., 11 - 1, Nov to april at the Somerset Gristmill. We accept EBT and WIC www.skowheganfarmersmarket.com/

Belfast Winter Farmers’ Market, every Friday Thanksgiving to Christmas, then 2nd & 4th Friday, 9-1 in the greenhouse at Aubuchon Hardware, Rt. 1.

Unity Community Market, every 3rd Sat., 10-2, Dec thru April, Unity Commu- nity Center, 32 School St. (Rte. 139). Con- tact: Unity Barn Raisers, 948-9005.

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Mark and Joanne Luce began in 1997 an alternative way to preserve farmland and keep land in agriculture. They sought to provide food (Venison), a product (Antlers) and recreation (Hunting) and that meant creating a deer farm and hunting preserve and likewise that meant very little (close to none) harvesting of wood to maintain the thrill of the hunt a very real and fresh event for those who choose to guarantee their hunting success. Throughout the year some 15 acres of 150 + acres are kept chewed down by lambs and does and a resident dominant buck per grouping until rutting season when the various groups are allowed full access to the buck and the lambs are held out for fresh sires at 1 ½ years, some are held to 2 ½ years depending upon a number of factors. When asked if any of his deer have ever twinned Mark Luce replied that had happened - while unusual - twice since 1997. What makes that unique is that in the wild, it is rare if one in 1000

Last fall we published a list of Maine butcher shops and do so again this year on page 11. Some shops chose to promote their business further within the next pages. - With the need for expanded conservation of a declined white tail deer herd in Maine, we publish this list of state deer farms below, some of which offer hunting preserves and most offer animals on the hoof for meat processing. We hope readers take advantage of their commercial hunt services to bag and process venison.

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J. Costello PA. - This was my first time hunting anything, let alone Red Stags! It was the BEST experience I ever had. I shot a trophy buck. I was the happiest guy around. The staff of guides plus the great hospitality was the best! “Guide Jason Farris instructed James with firearm safety, sighted in his rifle, and was at James side throughout his hunt." - Mark Luce. Hindsite Hunt Preserve is located at 314 Stetson Rd, Newport, Maine 04953, 2.5 miles from I-95 and 25 miles from Bangor International Airport. They offer Trophy Red Stag, Fallow Bucks and Quality Meat Hunts on private land in a family friendly environment. Safety is the 1st Priority - You will hunt with a Registered Maine Guide in the preserve during your stay and be provided an area to safely sight in firearms or bow.

Androscoggin Cty. Red Elk Ranch David Labbe Green Storman Farm Wayne & Tammy Stor- man Lisbon Falls

Aroostook County Chabre Deer Farm Rodrique Chabre Caribou Clement Farm James Clement Linneus D'Amboise Farms Jeannot D'Amboise Grand Isle Good Shepherd Deer Farm James Hender- son Linneus Homestead Lodge, In c John Nelson Oxbow Plt Shakaree Red Deer Farm & Mountain Shadows Hunting Mark Drew & Gary Dwyer Houlton 532-2940 www.shakareedeerfarm.com/ www.mountainshadowshunti ng.com As one of the largest breeding facilities in the country Shakaree has been offering Breed Stock, Vital Velvet Capsules / Velvet Antler, Venison Sticks, and Trophy Hunts since 1990.

Spruce Tree Deer Farm Lionel & Lind- sey Theriault Connor Twp Tobins Red Deer Farm Darrell Tobin Mapleton

Cumberland County Bayley Hill Elk and Deer Farm Fred & Kathleen Bayley Scarborough

Hedgebog Farm Todd Dolloff Raymond Sayward's Deer Farm Kenneth Sayward Raymond

Franklin County Dandelion Deer Farm Butch &Cindy Wells Chesterville

Hancock County Hillside Game Ranch Scott Beede & Tanya Longley Aurora 584- 2004 www.hillsideguideservice. com Offering hunts for Elk, Buffalo, Red Stag, Fallow Deer, Sika Deer, Russian Boar, Coyote, Whitetail Deer, Moose, Bobcat and Black Bear. All hunts include meals, lodging, and full guide service.

Kennebec County Dill Farm Frances Dill Belgrade Lakes Dorr Pond Deer Farm Benjamin Hussey Windsor Highland Acres Farm Ziggy Lawrence Al- bion

Ledge Hill Deer Farm Romeo Gaboury Chelsea Oak Ridge Red Deer Farm Gary & Rhoda Willard Mount Vernon Taylor Farm James Taylor Chelsea

Knox County Lincoln County Lakefield Farm/ James Maxmin/ Nobleboro Rocky Mtn. Deer, Elk and Buffalo Ranch Forest Peaslee

Jefferson 549-3221 [email protected] Rocky Mtn. Deer, Elk and Buffalo Ranch offers quality USDA Venison and Buffalo meat.

Rocky Mtn Red Deer Farm Forrest & Danny Peaslee Jefferson

Oxford County Deer Meadow Farm Kevin Billings West Paris NI HE VI Deer & Elk Farm Caldwell & Di- ane Jackson Oxford The Red Elk Game Ranch Ellery Porter Peru

Penobscot County Ash Hill View Deer Farm Kenneth Swett Carmel 848-3866 [email protected] Offering USDA Venison Sales, Breed Stock and Ant- ler Velvet.

Fallow PARK Farm Adam Graves Etna Hindsite Preserve & Deer Farm Mark and Joanne Luce Newport 368-4957 Farm 207 356-3582 Cell www.hindsite-deer.com Only 2.5 miles from I-95 offering Trophy Red Stag, Fallow Buck, Quality Meat Hunts, Antler Velvet, Ant- ler Chews, and Whole Ani- mal Venison sales since 2000.

Mason Farm Elwood & Carl Mason Levant McJordie's Deer Farm Terry Bragg Bangor Skinner Bog Deer Farm Wayne Garnett Dixmont

Wildes Woodyard Deer Farm Robbie Wilds Carmel

Piscataquis County Snow Farm Elizibeth Snow Dover-Foxcroft

Sagadohoc County Chopps Creek Deer Farm/ Ron Rodgers Sr. Woolwich

Somerset County Brown's Deer Farm/ Kenneth Brown Anson Julie's Red Deer Farm Gary & Julie La- Freniere Madison Lone Oak Deer Farm Ben & Melissa Black- well Madison 696- 1093 Morning Mist Farm Daniel & Tammy Bra- sier Ripley Dean Deer Farm Norman Dean Madi- son Shady Maple Deer & Lemon Stream Game Lands Norman and Beth Luce Anson 696-3006 www.lemonstreamgamelands. com 50 miles north of Au- gusta and 4 hours noth of Boston they offer Trophy Red Stag, Fallow Buck, Quality Meat Hunts, as well as Bison, Whole Animal Venison sales and Hay.

Sideview Deer Farm Linda & Michael Cip- riaro Athens Strong Hold Farm Jeff Lamb Mount Vernon Watering Hole Farm Tobin & Susan Belanger Moscow

Waldo County Country Haven Deer Farm John Fontain Waldo Drop Tine Deer Farm Greg and Sharon Keach Frankfort Sunrise Ridge Farm Geoffrey and Sandy Smith Liberty 589- 3000 [email protected]

Sun Ridge Deer Farm offers quality Venison, Vel- vet Antler, and Hard Antler.

Washington County Noyes Farm Colby Noyes Danforth Peek-a-boo Deer Farm and Hunt Park Kirk & Judy Sherman China 314-4349 [email protected] Offer- ing trophy hunts, whole animal venison and bison meat as well as USDA venison and bison upon request

Red Stag Farm Leon Yeaton Addison

York County Applegate Deer Farm Edgar and Patricia Dol- bec Newfield Apple Gate Deer Farm Edgar and Patricia Dol- bec Newfield 793-8677 Firtile Farm, LLC Theodore and Deborah Kryzak Acton Joan's Deer Farm Joan Bradbury Hollis Sanborn Farm Forrest Sanborn - Limerick Tarbox Fallow Deer Tom and Joanne Tar- box Buxton

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Joe Williams VA. - I highly recom- mend Hindsite Red Deer Hunt Pre- serve. I am a professional Taxidermist. When booking hunts I look for quality in the game that I hunt. Mark really has top quality Red Stags. I can't say enough about the help Mark gave me in collecting a very nice animal for a full body mount. He took the time to make my hunt exactly what I was looking for.

would normally twin. The two products that come from antlers, velvet processed into food supplements and the antlers themselves is coupled with hunters using local butcher shops to do the processing of the venison. Of benefit to local camp grounds, the hunting season for a preserve such is this is September through February, so a deer farm is a contribu- tor to the local economy in several tangible ways.

This provides them with steady income in addition to the traditional farmer and hunter trade that comes in season- ally and helps to employ workers, drivers, cutters, meat packers, cleaners, skinners, farm hands, chores that all farmers do themselves but com- bining cattle rear- ing with meat processing is not a lonesome work, most good butcher shops do this. It improves the reputation of the cutting and the meat.

Village on Rt 11A. These years of experience with state-of- the-art refrigeration; precise cutting, wrapping and vacuum packaging builds the farm reputation. They currently have approximately 250 beef on feed at all times. All cattle are fed a diet, without the use of stimulants or growth hor- mones. All beef is hung a minimum of 14 days after slaughter before it is processed. This has been proven to improve flavor and tenderness. Over 2009-2010 they have added 2,400 sq ft to the processing facility which includes more refrigeration an additional processing area as well as a fully automated smoke house. They farm nearly 1600 acres in Penobscot and Piscataquis County with 500 acres in corn, 60 acres in barley and the rest being in hay production keeping 400 head of dairy and beef cattle. The whole family is involved in the business. Daughter Amy has two sons, Brandon and Barrett, who are old enough to help out on the farm and Amy & Mike help in the fall when it gets busy with game animals.

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The Higgins Family - Maple Lane Farms Maple Lane Farms is a fourth-generation family farm and has been at the same location since 1935 when Stanley Higgins bought the farm. Stanley sold the farm to Charles “Shine” and Margaret Higgins in 1941, together; they ran the farm as a potato, dairy and hay operation. Barry, joined his dad Shine in the ‘60s and the farm was primarily a dairy farm. In the early ‘70’s a farm store was added at the location and the family sold meat and natural milk as well as ran a wholesale truck. They decided to close the farm store in 1988, but continued to do custom meat cutting of domestic and game animals. They sold and processed sides and quarters of beef and pork raised on the farm. In the early ‘90’s, they started a small-scale commercial hay and silage business. In 1995, son BJ decided to join the farm operation. He continues today becoming the fourth generation. BJ is a major partner in the business along with his wife, Randa and their girls, McKenna and Kylie. At that time, they started a small herd of natural beef, so they could supply customers with beef raised directly on the farm. Since 1999, the family has grown the hay and silage business, added a large line of trucks and equipment, and is now one of the largest hay dealers in the Northastern United States dealing mostly in standard square bales for horses, goats and sheep. They also handle round bales and raise extra corn and haylege for other dairy and livestock producer’s forage. In 2005, they constructed a new slaughter/processing facility on the farm, one mile east of

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In November, Arnold and Elaine Luce will mark 10 years as a USDA meat plant from the secluded location on a hill in rural North Anson. Additionally to domestic livestock processing they handle custom work for moose, deer, etc. Over the years processing meat for Maine consumers has been a good business but among the best achievements the Luce family has brought about is that they are the only certifed meat processor allowed for the Whole Foods Store in Portland, a major buyer of their meats. They are certified to be third party processors for humane handling and they were the first meat processor in the state to be certified organic. A few years back the Luces began what became an exclusive service to restau- rants. They created the Maine Farm Brands label for their meats and peddle this brand of meat cuts along routes they established all over Maine.

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Sister and brother Ellie Patterson and Trey Gilbert remember the Herring brothers and that influence upon the family line business which now occupies the old plant and has expanded to new quarters jutting out the front of a building that housed 4 generations of meat cutters. With Tom & An- drea Gilbert, parents, they manage the business with a modern focus. A modern recognition of local farming and livestock availability. To this end, they now privately label from 50-60 Maine producers their own USDA inspected products. Lamb, pork, Beef, goat - you name it they have probably cut, inspected and packaged it for the farmer customers who economically market it at farmstead locations and distant Maine stores. The custom cutting they provide households are too many to count. So many farmers raise animals for the freezer in central Maine. The many hunters with game animals, within Maine’s hunting region, expands the cutting business even more so. The variety of specialty farm cutting and meat process manufacturing product lines, again, difficult to count when recipes and tastes are factored in. This factor led this generation of the Herring family to invest in new smokers (2), new cryovac vacuum packaging, a 40X60 addition and the establishment of a new product, they are the processors of “Wicked Good Beef Jerky” that is marketed all over Maine. They also provide meat products for the grocery chains which sell under the “Maine Kitchen” label and Dennis Paper that distributes a ground beef patty and keibassa to other Maine stores. Representing some 90 years of cutting, this company has a road side meat market, the USDA plant, the food products manufacturing division and raises beef and buys local domestic livestock for processing. They provide food for many consumers in Maine and most may not even know this when they sit down to eat.

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Game wardens and hunters are claiming wolves and coyotes in Maine have been breeding in recent years. The outcome is a vicious example of the lone wolf mentality with the offspring. A danger to humans and livestock. Deer hunters have traditionally taken such animals when out and about and expectations are the kill will continue to mitigate this evolution.

The variety and length of time the Watson family of Etna has brought to their present business is interesting. The farm itself represents 5 generations of farming that in recent years has concen- trated upon horse boarding with riding trails coupled with beef and pork production and hay manufacture and sales. The past three years has brought Jeff and his great experience with the late Wayne Young of Newburg and that fine meat processing facility, home. While the Young shop is closed, many of those customers came to Watsons to continue the fine service and cutting Jeff and Andy bring to this new farm business located on Carter Road. Jeff ‘s 17 years with Young were well spent. They have a custom shop and so there is a custom thinking behind how they do business here. Those beef and pork animals they raise may at times be chosen by customers for processing, either by half, quarter or whole. This allows the farm to sell the animal on the hoof for a reasonable price and then the customer does not have to bother with transport costs to get his or her animal to the meat plant. The Watsons take care of that detail and cut the critter to the specific taste and ordering of the buyer. It gives the buyer the option of choice, and they get to view animals live and examine

the quality of the rate of growth over time. As with any custom house they have rules for customers to live by. The will do sheep, goats, pork, cattle but will not do poultry and do not sell retail cuts. They have a complete slaughter facility with blast freezer and aging chill rooms. Due to the assump- tion of business left by the passing of Wayne Young, repeat business comes to them from towns all over Maine, in all directions.

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Flying Mule Farm Roast Rack of Lamb with Fresh Mint and Rosemary Serves 4 (prep time: 15 minutes; cook time: 40 minutes) Ingredients:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Heat a well-seasoned cast iron pan over high heat on the stovetop. Season the lamb racks generously with salt and pepper. Add the vegetable oil to the hot pan and continue heating the oil to smoking point. When oil has just begun to smoke add the lamb racks, fat side down, and sear until well caramelized. Turn and sear the bottom and back sides of the racks. Re- move lamb racks from the pan and remove pan from the heat. Drain off any remaining oil and wipe out pan with a paper towel. In a small mixing bowl, combine the chopped mint, rosemary, thyme, mustard and wine. Stirring gently, slowly add the olive oil. Season generously with salt and pepper. Coat the seared lamb racks with half of the herb mixture. Return the lamb to the warm cast iron pan, fat side up.

Add the butter and the crushed garlic. The butter should melt slowly from the residual heat of the pan. Transfer the pan to the preheated oven and roast, bast- ing frequently with the butter-garlic mixture, until lamb is cooked to desired doneness (125 for medium rare, about 25 minutes). Remove lamb from the oven and let rest at room tem- perature for at least 10 minutes before carving. Coat with the remaining herb mixture and serve over soft po- lenta, steamed quinoa or roasted potatoes.

French version Carré d’agneau rôti avec menthe fraîche et romarin de la ferme ‘Flying Mule’

Préchauffez le four à 230 degrés. Chauffez à feu vif une casserole en fonte sur la cuisinière. Assaisonnez généreusement de sel et de poivre les carrés d’agneau. Ajoutez l’huile végétale dans la casserole chaude, et con- tinuez à chauffer l’huile jusqu’à ce qu’elle frie. Quand l’huile a commencé à frire, ajoutez les carrés d’agneau, le côté gras en bas, et les saisir jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient bien caramélisés. Tournez et saisir le fond et les côtés arrière des carrés d’agneau. Retirez les carrés d’agneau de la casserole, et retirez la poêle du feu. Egouttez l’huile restante, et bien essuyer la casserole avec une serviette en papier. Dans un petit saladier, associez la menthe coupée, le romarin, le thym, les graines de moutarde et le vin. Mé- langez les, en ajoutant doucement et lentement l’huile d’olive. Assaisonnez généreusement en sel et poivre. Couvrez les carrés d’agneau saisis avec la moitié du mé- lange d’herbes aromatiques. Remettre l’agneau dans la casserole en fonte.

* 2 whole racks of lamb, frenched * ¼ cup vegetable oil * 1 stick (4 oz.) unsalted butter * 8 cloves garlic, peeled & crushed * ½ cup chopped fresh mint * ¼ cup chopped fresh thyme * ¼ cup chopped fresh rosemary * ¼ cup whole grain Dijon mustard * ¼ cup dry red wine * ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil * salt and pepper, to taste

* 2 carrés d’agneau entiers, désossés * 60 ml d’huile végétale * 120 g de beurre non salé (ou une barrette de beurre) * 8 gousses d’ail, pelées et écrasées * 120 g de menthe fraîche coupée * 60 g de romarin frais coupé * 60 g de thym frais coupé * 60 g de graines (entières) de moutarde de Dijon * 60 ml de vin rouge sec * 180 ml d’huile d’olive extra vierge * Sel et poivre, selon goût

Pour 4 personnes Temps de préparation : 15 mn

Temps de cuisson : 40 mn Ingrédients :

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G.L. Strout & Sons Welding, Inc.

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647 Bradford Rd. Charleston 04422 1 800 649-3307 East Corinth 285-3306

Serving Central Maine for over 50 years

Agricultural Tractors

Eastern & Coastal Maine 207 234-2877

[email protected] Hot-Cold & Therapy

Maine Farrier Service Newburgh 04444

Regional-State-wide

Artic Cat Ariens Gravely Houle Husqvarna Stihl New Idea New Holland

2400 W. River Rd.,

Kramer’s Inc.

WELL CONTRACTORS Across The Street or Across The State

Brown’s Custom Spreading

& Lime Sales

Tel. 944-4664

Installing Outdoor Wood Furnaces

For All Your Heating Needs

Rick Strout 285-3832 Home 745-9650 Cell

Timber Repair/Jacking/Leveling Post and Beam Repairs

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A 1 Stump Grinding 188 Brooks Rd Thorndike

568-4060 Lawns, Paths, Field s

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568-4060 State wide service

TWEEDIE LUMBER Post & Beam Framing V Match Boat Planking Cedar Cedar Cabin lumber

Hydraulic & Hydrostatic Rebuilding/Sales Pumps Motors Valves Cylinders

Gear Boxes Hoses & Fittings 591 Ridge Rd., Plymouth 257-2518 257-2819

Bangor Truck Equipment 34 Perry Road * Bangor 04401

Fax 990-1125 Toll Free

www.bangortruckequipment.com John Fahey - Wayne Nason-Dave Therrien

William Massow Manager

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Serving Maines’s De-icing Needs

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State wide

MAINE HARVEST LINK Distributors of local natural foods

Mike Gold - 16 Waning Rd., Unity

207 877-1182 [email protected]

187 Brooks Road - Rte. 139

Trellis Arbors Split Rail Fencing

We Sell Parts for the Do-it-Yourselfer

Fall Issue 11

Agricultural &

Industrial

McLaughlin’s Auto Repair

Ansel McLaughin Owner

79 Main St. East Millinocket

“Service Where Experience Counts”

North Penobscot

Slaughterhouse & Meat Market Custom Butchering

Meat Cutting Vacuum Sealing

Toll Free 888 746-5845 53 Pattagumpus Rd., Chester Rd Medway

A Winning

Deal

J & S Stables 732-5366 710 Dodlin Rd. Enfield

www.dieselfuelsystems.com

Pumps * Injectors * Turbos * Bosch * Performance Parts * Cummins * Cen-Pe-Co * Standyne * Cat * IPD Engine Parts

Drive In Service 584 Odlin Road, Bangor 04401 207 941-8595 Fax 941-0029

14 Mechanic St. Lincoln ph 794-6411 fx 794-6404

ROGER’S Small Engine Repair 260 Main St. Lincoln 04457

Roger Trott 794-6620

Cell 290-1917(1918)

POB 147

Meat in Maine... State slaughter houses, retail, wholesale, private, custom processors & poultry firms

Nice group of cattle awaiting feeding at North Bradford

Nest & Mullen Slaughterhouse

7 Perkins Lane Kennebunk 207 985-2363 Tues-Fri 8-5, closed 12-1

Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt smoking;

retail and wholesale, No Game

Ken’s Custom Meat Cutting 134 River Road

Biddeford 207 282-9078 Mon-Sun 8-4

Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / process-

ing; custom exempt poultry, No Game

West Gardiner Beef 10 Gilley Drive

West Gardiner 724-3378 M-F 7-5, Sat 7:30-Noon

Closed Feb 14 - Labor Day Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt smoking;

retail and wholesale custom exempt poultry

Garey’s Custom Slaughterhouse 125 Benjamin Road

Mars Hill 207 429-8091 by appointment

Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt

red meat slaughter / processing Custom exempt smoking

Retail and wholesale

L.P. Bisson & Sons Slaughterhouse 112 Meadow Road

Topsham 207 725-7215 by appointment


red meat slaughter / processing Inspected smoking retail & wholesale

Bubier Meats 194 Spraguue Mills Road Greene 207 946-5015

M-F 7:30-3 Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt

red meat slaughter / processing Retail and wholesale

Cooperative Poultry Producers, Inc. COOPP

259 Tilson Road Monmouth 207 345-9005

by appointment Inspected poultry processing (chicken, turkey, waterfowl)

Maple Lane Farm 224 Charleston Road

Charleston 207 285-3591 9-5 daily


red meat slaughter / processing Moowe/wild-caught deer

Windham Butchershop Varney Mills Road

Windham 207 892-4203 9-5 daily or by appointment Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt

red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt smoking; retail

and wholesale

Medway Slaughterhouse 53 Pattagumpus Rd / Chester Rd Medway Toll Free 888-746-5845

USDA Inspected Establishments

Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / process-

ing; retail and wholesale

Curtis Butchershop 1719 Camden Road

Warren 207 273-2574 9-5 daily or by appointment Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / process-


Sanford Butchershop 2061 Rochester Road

Sanford 207 324-2800 9-5 daily or by appointment Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / process-


Herring Bros., Inc. PO Box 526

Dover-Foxcroft 876-4395 M-Sat 7:30-5

Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing; Inspected smoking; retail

and wholesale

Luce’s Maine Grown Meats

366 Embden Pond Road North Anson 635-2817

9-5 daily or by appointment Inspected red meat slaughter / processing; custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing; inspected smoking; retail

and wholesale

Formerly Yorks

Castonguay Meats 234 Gibbs Mill Road

Livermore 207 897-4989 by appointment

Custom exempt red meat slaughter/ processing; moose/

wild-caught deer

Blaisdell Brothers Farm 140 South Side Road

York 207 363-6078 by appointment, M-Sat 9-7

custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing No Game

Tabor Homestead 335 Lebanon Road

North Berwick 676-5579 by appointment

custom exempt poultry

Kimball’s Butchershop 9 Bear Pond Road

Waterford 207 583-4114 by appointment

custom exempt red meat slaughter only, No Game

Deer Meadowbrook Farm, LLC

131 Boynton Schoolhouse Road Jefferson 207 549-5660

M-Sat 8-5

Licensed Custom Exempt Only

Establishments

custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing domestic

and Moose / deer, bear

Blaisdell’s Custom Slaughterhouse 163 Waterville Road

Norridgewock 207 634-3742 Mon-Sat 9-7

custom exempt red meat slaughter / No Game

Greaney’s Turkey Farm 309 Main Street

Mercer 207 587-4062 by appointment only custom exempt poultry

Jason’s Butchershop 22 Unity Road

Albion 207 437-2490 9-5 daily, by appointment

Custom poultry; custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing

moose/wild-caught deer

Watson’s Butchershop 61 Carter Road

Etna 207 363-6078 9-5 daily, by appointment

custom exempt red meat slaughter / processing

Boucher’s Cutting 715 Benton Avenue

Winslow 207 363-6078 9-5 daily, by appointment


Moose/wild-caught deer

Folsom’s Meat Cutting Route 1

Monticello 207 538-2129 M-F 7-5



A & A Slaughter House 175 Fort Road

Presque Isle 207 764-4941 9-5, by appointment



Maine-ly Poultry Atlantic Highway

Warren 207 342-5705

Sumner Valley Farm 85 Morrill Farm Road

Sumner 207 388-3440

Tide Mill Organics 91 Tide Mill Road

Edmunds 207 733-2551

Tracy’s Place Old Route 2

Mercer 207 587-4062

Sunnyside Farm 406 New Limerick Road

Linneus 207 532-7058

Grower Producer Exempt Poultry Establishments

Retail Poultry only within the state; wholesale poultry

only within Maine

State Inspected Establishments

207 285-3467 991-4435 c Shipping Day on Tuesday

Auctioneer Jeffrey T. Tilton Lic. # AR 1163

Trucking Available * Auction all types -Daily Buying and Selling- Tilton’s Auction

Cedar Split Rail Fencing

Handmade & Hand Split Rail & Posts

[email protected] 354 Rt. 168 Winn

736-3018

Robert Berry, Prop .

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Eastern Penobscot

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At Gilman Falls & Bennoch Rd intersection .5 mile from I-95 Exit #197

281 Western Ave. (Rt 9) 207 863-2500 [email protected] www.hampdennaturalfoods.com M-F 9-6, Sat 9-5, Sun 10-5

Local - Fresh - Organic - Produce Eggs - Milk - Bread - Supplements

Beer - Wine - Cheese

Hampden Natural Foods Natural Living Center 209 Longview Drive (Corner Stillwater Ave.)

04401 English, Western, Driving & Farrie r TWTh 9.30-4.30 F 9.30-6 Sat 9.30-3

476 Main St., Orono

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Gass Horse Supply “everything for the horse & horseman” - Tractor Sales -

www.brucestractorsales.net www.bagelcentralbangor.com

Caron Signs 445 Dave’s Way Hermon 04401 207 848-7889 Fax 848-7886 [email protected] www.caronsigns.com

Contractor Supply Inc. 431 Odlin Road Bangor 04401 262-0040 877-262-0041

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Tilton’s Auction Shipping Day on Tuesday

- Daily Buying and Selling -

Auctioneer Jeffrey T. Tilton Lic. # AR 1163

Trucking Available * Auction all types

Quality Vehicles Unbeatable Prices “Over 40 years in business”

PRAY’S AUTO SALES.COM Steve Pray Wayne Hawes 207 949-7729 207-232-8080

European Farmers Market

At Sunnyside Greenhouses 117 Buck Street - Bangor

Tel. 947-8464

Tractor FOR SALE 1949 Cockshutt Model 30 SN 17621 $3,200. Also: Trukhoe - truck mounted

Backhoe for ton truck $4,000. Tel. 965-2332

This size Classified Advert box is $10 per issue. Send yours to PO Box 632 Brownville, ME

04414 with payment.

All cleaned up and waiting for the show.

Mid winter-AG Trade Show Advertising Deadline

Plan now, schedule ahead December 10 - 965-2332

2009/2010 Dairy Royalty L- R are Briannah Bickford 2010 Jr

Princess; Monique Bickford ‘09, Jr Princess; Sarah Richards 2009 Dairy Princess; Shelby Patten 2010 Dairy Princess; Coleen Scholfield, Runner Up Dairy Princess, 2009 & 2010.

Brian Campbell’s Sunflower Display Ribbon winner at Dover. Adams photos.

At age 10, Rebekah Guz- zetta of Abott had never en- tered exhibits at any fair. She earned a ribbon with her blue white and red Salza at Dover and Emily Adams snapped this picture of her and mum, Moria McGarey.

Randi Smith of LaGrange Daisy photograph took first place at Dover. Adams photo

Amanda, Stephanie and their dad, Willie Winslow were among the many 4-H and FFA participants at Northern Maine Fair’s sheep show with this Tunis lamb.

Eric Potter Owner

Potter’s Transmission Complete Transmission Specialists

Unlimited Mileage Warrantees Available 848-7568

US Rt. 2 848-9867 Fax Carmel, ME 04419 1 800 621-5259

Fryeburg Fair:Piscataquis Fair:

Clinton Lions:

Presque Isle Fair:

Crops & Woodland

The

Directory Trades

The phone book for veggies, firewood, misc.

Farmer’s

Fall Issue 13

Sam’s Qwik Stop Penobscot Veterinary Services

PVS

Cedar Run Farm

Boer& Dairy Goats 282 Main Rd. Bradford 04410 327-1590 [email protected]

www.maineboergoats.com

Overhead Door Company of Bangor, Inc .

411 Davis Rd. Bangor 04401 947-6783 Fax 942-5184

3965 Broadway Kenduskeag 04450

884-4257 fax 884-4258 Suzan Bowers

56 Liberty Drive Hermon 04401 Phone 207 848-2856

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Phoenix Rising Farm LLC

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Hermon 848-6620 www.tedmcleodwaterwells.com

“Go Green Geothermal”

Daily milking demonstration at Windsor, a popular attraction

The new Ag Building at Presque Isle Fairgrounds

is full of old equipment.

Joel McLaughlin’s asparagus beans as photographed by Emily Adams at Dover fairgrounds

ENGLISH WESTERN DRIVING FARRIER

“Providing for Horse and Rider”

HORSE SUPPLY 476 Main St. - Orono, Maine

207-866-8593 www.GassHorseSupply.com

Your Advertisement is published here as you are a farmer and woodlot owner and thereby catch a break for the cost of placing an ad year round. Please call 965-2332 to find out more and speak with the publisher. Keep a seasonal business ad in the newspaper all year long for very little money.

Farmers Take Note:

Accedited IGHSPA Installer

[email protected] Hydroponically Grown Produce

Cody Miles of Troy and Tyler Ste- venson, Thorndike tended cows at Union Fair.

At Piscataquis, a local girl learned show sheep tips from the sheep

judge, Janie Jamieson from Orono. Edie Kirshner of Stockton Springs sheared sheep for Central Maine Sheep Assoc. fair at tendees demonstration. Passersby were invited to try shearing, many did.

Houston-Brooks Auctioneers

PO Box 99 - 22 Horseback Rd. - Burnham

Consignment Sales Every Sunda * Estate Sales

[email protected] www.houstonbroooks.com

Crops & Woodland

The

Directory Trades

The phone book for veggies, firewood, misc.

Farmer’s

Fall Issue 13

Sam’s Qwik Stop Penobscot Veterinary Services

PVS

Cedar Run Farm

Boer& Dairy Goats 282 Main Rd. Bradford 04410 327-1590 [email protected]

www.maineboergoats.com

Overhead Door Company of Bangor, Inc .

411 Davis Rd. Bangor 04401 947-6783 Fax 942-5184

3965 Broadway Kenduskeag 04450

884-4257 fax 884-4258 Suzan Bowers

56 Liberty Drive Hermon 04401 Phone 207 848-2856

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“Go Green Geothermal”

Daily milking demonstration at Windsor, a popular attraction

The new Ag Building at Presque Isle Fairgrounds

is full of old equipment.

Joel McLaughlin’s asparagus beans as photographed by Emily Adams at Dover fairgrounds

ENGLISH WESTERN DRIVING FARRIER

“Providing for Horse and Rider”

HORSE SUPPLY 476 Main St. - Orono, Maine

207-866-8593 www.GassHorseSupply.com

Your Advertisement is published here as you are a farmer and woodlot owner and thereby catch a break for the cost of placing an ad year round. Please call 965-2332 to find out more and speak with the publisher. Keep a seasonal business ad in the newspaper all year long for very little money.

Farmers Take Note:

Accedited IGHSPA Installer

[email protected] Hydroponically Grown Produce

Cody Miles of Troy and Tyler Ste- venson, Thorndike tended cows at Union Fair.

At Piscataquis, a local girl learned show sheep tips from the sheep

judge, Janie Jamieson from Orono. Edie Kirshner of Stockton Springs sheared sheep for Central Maine Sheep Assoc. fair at tendees demonstration. Passersby were invited to try shearing, many did.

Houston-Brooks Auctioneers

PO Box 99 - 22 Horseback Rd. - Burnham

Consignment Sales Every Sunda * Estate Sales

[email protected] www.houstonbroooks.com

Resources, Logging, Recreation, Woods, Fields, Water & Commerce 14 Fall Issue

A news feature of Agriculture each issue on farming, fishing, forestry and minerals. The true wealth of Maine.

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Pumpkins and winter squash are maturing early this year causing a lot of head scratching and wondering what to do with orange pumpkins that arrived in time for Labor Day.

If the vines and foliage are in good condition it may be best to leave the fruit in the field. However, early harvest and storage may be preferable to leaving the fruit in the field particularly if the vines are in poor condition. Appropriate application of protectant fungicides such as chlorothalonil prior to harvest will help protect the fruit, stems, and foliage from black rot and other

fruit rots and should increase storage life. Leaving the pumpkins in the field once foliage cover is reduced or after the vines have died may lead to exten- sive losses of otherwise marketable fruit. Foliage cover is needed to prevent sunscald of the fruit and dead, decaying vines can reduce the quality of pumpkin stems. If the field has a history of Fusarium or Phy- tophtora, leaving mature fruit in the field will increase the likelihood of losses due to fruit rot. If you do plan to store the fruit in the field cut the fruit from the vine and windrow the fruit in drier sections of the field. Cutting the fruit from the vine will help protect the

stem from the spread of powdery mildew along the vine and can reduce shriveling and shrinkage of the stem. It is important to scout for insects feeding on the fruit and stems, the most common and serious pests are squash bug nymphs and adults and the striped cu- cumber beetle. Insect feeding on the fruit or stems will result in unsightly scarring and pitting which can also allow entry of diseases. Control these insects with appropriate insecticides (consult the latest edition of the New England Vegetable Management Guide for a list of available insecticides). Ideally, pumpkins should be harvested when fully mature, with a deep orange color and hardened rind. However, as long as pumpkins have started to turn color, they will ripen off the vine if held under the proper conditions. While not ideal, this may be preferable to leaving them in the field if conditions are not favorable. Only bring in injury and , disease free fruit to cure and store. If necessary, pumpkins can be ripened in a well-ventilated barn or greenhouse. The best temperatures for ripening are 80-85°F with a relative humidity of 80-85%. Night tempertatures should no drop below the sixties. Even

if pumpkins are ripe, a period of curing can improve storage life. The curing period should be about 10 days. During this process, the fruit skin hardens, wounds heal and immature fruit ripens - all of which prolongs the storage life. Pumpkins should be stored in a cool, dry place. Ideal temperatures are between 50° and 60° F and relative humidity of 50 - 70%. Higher humidity allows condensation on the fruit with risk of disease, and lower humidity can cause dehydration. Higher temperatures increase respiration and can cause weight loss. Store fruit on pallets or in ratures increase respiration and can cause weight loss. Store fruit on pallets or in large bins being careful not to overfill or stack pumpkins too high. Pressure bruises can reduce storage life. Stacking pumpkins on dirt or concrete floors can result in significant fruit losses to fruit rots. Even if it is difficult to provide the ideal conditions, storage in a shady, dry location, with fruit off the ground or the floor, is preferable to leaving fruit out in the field.

UM Extension Vegetable Specialist Albert Tate, Corinth.

Picture by Emily Adams

ArticleThanks to -- R. Hazzard, J. Howell, A. Carter, and Robert Wick. University of Massachusetts; Dale Riggs & Robert Rouse, Pumpkin Production Guide, NRAES; Maurice Ogutu, University of Illinois Exten- sion, in Vegetable Growers News, August 2004; and Liz Maynard, Purdue University; Andy Wyendandt, Wes Kline, Rutgers Univ. Reprinted from Penobscot-Piscataquis Farming News and picture from Penqui s Review.

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Farmers and horse people needing hay sources should check out the Maine Hay Directory at www.umext.maine.edu/Waldo/hay.htm This site lists who has extra hay and where all over Maine. This picture was taken inside the city of Bangor on outer Broadway in August. .

Hay Directory

Moosehead Manufacturing start up An auction buyer stopped debate in August offering $1 million + for a plant valued at twice that amount currently out of business but not so, soon. Maine real estate company and manufacturer Louise Jonaitis of Newry plans to open a factory store in the former elementary school in Monson with available products in inventory at the plant down the street. Since the purchase, Piscataquis Economic Development Council will assist Jonaitis apply for a $200,000 grant to help pay due taxes and operating cash to employ from 12-30 employees at start up in about 35 days. Previous owners Josh Tardy and Dana Connors had paid $2.2 million for the plants at Dover-Foxcroft and Monson and kept the plant from closing permanently but the down- turn in the economy sealed the fate of more manufacturing in the last year and employees went on unem- ployment.

Attention hunters! Hunters for the Hungry, a cooperative program between Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and The Food Assistance Program, provides a means for hunters to donate all or a portion of their hunt to a local food pantry. This program has been a great contribution to our citizens, providing meat to those who may no longer be able to hunt, to those who have a medical necessity of having natural low fat meat and to others who visit their local emergency feeding organization.

Oct 15 - Kitchen Licensing Workshop at MOFGA's Education Center in Unity. Preregister. Oct 16 - 17 - Second An- nual Fiber Maine-ia Festi- val This free event will be held during UMaine's Orono Homecoming weekend, vendors, workshops, and demos lined up. Oct 23 - Great Maine Ap- ple Day Sponsored by MOFGA, Fedco, and the University of Maine Coop- erative Extension, 12 noon- 4 pm Rain or Shine, Admis- sion $4, $2 for members of

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MOFGA & Maine Pomo- logical Society. Held at Common Ground Ed Center, Unity. Oct 23 - Sheep & Goat Re- production Seminar at Kennebec Valley Commu- nity College. See: http:// extension.umaine.edu/livestock/

Nov 5-6 - Curling lessons will be offered at the Curl- ing Club Belfast. Nov 5-7 - Farmer to Farmer Conference , MOFGA and UMaine Co-

operative Extension, North- port www.mofga.org

Nov 10 - Central Maine Sheep Club meeting at Co- operative Extension office, Dover-Foxcroft at 7 pm. Public interested sheep en- thusiasts always welcome.

Feed Commodities in Detroit annually holds an open house to place farm supplies on special and get customers into the store. Jeremiah, Linda and Lauchlin Titus from AG Matters LLC, Vassalboro were one of the many invited vendors to share in the public attendance that offered a free chicken barbecue. Jeremiah offers seed and soils consulting for crop farmers.

Winter Storage Available 60X100 Clear-Span Enclosed Barn.

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Organic Maine - A directory of farms, products, foods is available from MOFGA in Unity or at most feed stores, food co-ops throughout Maine.

Those wishing more information on this program may call toll free 1-888-4 DEER-ME (433-3763).

A presentation of the annual Austin H. Wilkins Forest Stewardship Award was given at the Blaine House, Augusta Oct. 7 to Prentice and Carlisle Corporation. This award is sponsored by the Maine Department of Conservation and the Maine Tree Foundation and this year it was accepted by Chairman of the Board David Carlisle with company president Don White attending. Gov. John Baldacci first presented the award in 2004 to the namesake Austin Wilkins in recognition of his many years as Forestry Commissioner for his great reputation within the forestry industry in Maine.

Forestry award given

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Many excellent photographs were displayed at most fairs this summer with so many people using digital cameras in modern times. This mother moose and calf picture was taken by Barbara Hamlin of Milo and displayed at Piscataquis Valley Fair in August.

Dairy Princess 2010 65 Anniversary leader

Galen Cole on TV

Scout beyond badges

It isn’t often young folks with can do thinking drop by the Maine news horizon.

The hardscrabble nature that is Maine living creates our brain drain and most people like to see such young people as self actualized as this high school age lad. Home schooled in his early grades, middle and high school level next, student Caleb Guerin - of Glenburn - switched to get college level course work as soon as allowed so, EMMC, Husson & UMaine /Augusta were his next choices. This course work behind him he is not sure if plans for formal college entry are near or for when he is financially able a year from now. Notices about 6 such students across Maine winning 4-H Award Scholarships were noted in the summer issue yet this added notice, is published to demonstrate outstanding students are among us working to excel. As a statement for home schooling vs public schools, this student with parents Joseph and Stacey Gurin have shown that care and diligence pay off. Scouting, 4-H also contributed. Caleb began his greenhouse business with savings from keeping his blue ribbon winning sheep earnings garnered at 4-H fairs. He sold the sheep at a profit and bought a greenhouse kit and then after selling plants built a greenhouse. He now has many customers both wholesale and retail and has quite the green thumb and an extended growing season for vegetables and flowers, a business. An eagle scout, he is well known in scout circles for his helpfulness and assistance to young scouts and social nature at scouting events and excelled at 4-H. He is working for USDA , Penobsot County office presently.

1326 Exeter Rd., (Rte. 11 & 43) Exeter

379-2900 1 800 453-3337 Maine’s largest supplier of Poulin Grain & Pet Food

Hardware * Electrical * Plumbing * Tarps Tools * Grass Seed * Fertilizer & Soil * Mulch

Pet Supplies * Electric Fence Supplies Gates * Corral panels * Wood Pellets & Much more...

Hours: Mon-Fri 7-5 / Sat 8-12 is delivered by to the following feed dealers:

William’s General Bingham 672-5547

Brooks Village Grocery 722-3656 Corn King USA Ft Kent 834-2911 Cornville Farm & Home 474-9689 Russ Dodge New Sharon 776-4748 Ellsworth Agway 667-9546 Estrella’s Feed N. Anson 635-2016 Family Market Frankfort 223-4669 Feed Depot Easton 488-9645 Garland Store 924-6996 Hoof’n It Tack Levant 990-0955 Horse Stuff W Farmington 778-3600 Katahdin Trails Newport 368-5599

Lyman’s Supply Skowhegan 238-9209 McK’s Variety Hampden 862-3196 Monson General Store 997-3964 Morse Grain Shed Cherryfield 546-2319 Newcomb’s in Perry 853-4602 Outlet Store Cannan 474-3809 Roger’s Market Hudson 327-2228 Shirley General Shirley 695-3204 Smart’s Hwde Lincoln 794-8011 The Potting Shed Moose River 668-5761 3 Rivers Feed Milo 943-2155 Toot’s Deli Dexter 924-7060

Clinton Fairgrounds was the set- ting September 9th for the Fourth Annual Maine Dairy Princess Pageant. There was a field of nine contestants within two age groups for judges to choose from. The two young women pictured above will represent the Maine Dairy Industry at various events such as the Eastern States Exhibition, the Agricultural Trade Show in January and Agriculture Day at the Legislature in March.

The 2010 Maine Dairy Princess is Shelby Patten the daughter of Tonya Patten and the late Peter Patten and they reside in Levant. The sponsor for Miss Patten is Caverly Farms LLC, left in picture.

The 2010 Junior Maine Dairy Princess Winner is Briannah Bickford (R in picture) the daughter of David and Kat- rina Bickford of Clinton and Misty Mead- ows Farm was the sponsor.

The 2010 Maine Dairy Princess Runner-up is Colleen Schofield. Her parents are Wayne and Jennifer Schofield of Troy and she was sponsored by Aghaloma Farms and Hardy Farm. An additional photo is on page 12.

Eagle Scout jumped state and secondary education for the quickness of a real business venture & home schooling.

spouse or child, eligibility to them is also possible. Two career advisors are located in Maine. Chris Huh in Ellsworth at 248 State St, Tel. 610-1521 and Wendy Lord in Presque Isle at the Career Center, 66 Spruce Street Tel. 760-6333. They can meet you at your place of work, home town and give you information over the phone.

The National Farmworkers Jobs Program is managed in Maine by Eastern Maine Develop- ment Corporation (EMDC) and exists to aid farmworkers and their families in reaching goals for further training and employment. This could mean money for college or for short term training such as pesticide application or GED or traditional occupational training like CNA, welding or diesel mechanics. A farm worker can be reimbursed for travel to school, child care or emergencies while attending school . While this is federal money set aside ex- clusively for farmworkers, if within a 12-month period in the last two years of work, 50 percent of such work was on a farm and income guidelines, selective service or authorization to work in the US all comply, workers may be eligible to study. The program is funded through the Employ- ment and Training Admin- istration of the US Department of Labor. EMDC staff will help in the application process. If a farmworker has a dependent

Galen Cole, a WWII veteran ar- ranged a special cer- emony at his Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor to commemorate the sacrifices of WWII veterans in Septem- ber. Numerous veterans from all conflicts, the oldest veteran in Maine - age 101 - and the Governor were on hand to speak to the issue of public service and patriotism. Cole experienced

Story and photos by Amanda Rachael Photography

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