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Beth Plummer, scientific technician at the Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle, collects potato blossom pollen to be used to start a new variety of the crop. Credit: Paula Brewer / Star-Herald
Beth Plummer, scientific technician at the Aroostook Research Farm in Presque Isle, collects potato blossom pollen to be used to start a new variety of the crop. Credit: Paula Brewer / Star-Herald
Biden proposal would cut funding for UMaine potato research program
The largest pot of federal funding for the University of Maine program that develops new potato varieties is on the budgetary chopping block, risking the program’s future. Read more.
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