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Two FSMA Compliance Training Opportunities in ME and MA in 2016

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August 23-25 the University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a FSPCA Preventative Controls for Human Food Certification Training workshop on their Orono Campus for $250/person for Maine businesses. This course will cover everything a food processing company will need to know to comply with the newly implemented Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), including the opportunity to become a certified Food Safety Qualified Individual. For more information and a registration link visit

https://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/food-safety/fspca-certification-training/

The Mass Cheese Guild has also arranged for a similar course that will be held on the UMass Amherst campus November 2 – 4. For complete details and registration visit

http://macheeseguild.org/fsma-compliance-training/

Tree Fodder Seminar July 10-16

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Boosting Climate Resilience and Biodiversity in Perennial Farm ecosystems through use of Air Meadow Pollarding.

July 10 -16 (with partial attendance invited), at 3 Streams Farm in Belfast, Maine

Traditional Air Meadow pruning cycles are aimed at creating accessible native tree forms for harvest of high quality animal fodder. These methods also enhance bush and ground browse layers, provide nutrients to pasture plants, fix more carbon, increase tree longevity, preserve broader forest gene pools of tree individuals per area, and increase habitat diversity and species counts.
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Deworming Ruminants

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Free Presentation, June 23, 2016 – What Sheep, Goat and Cattle Producers Ought to know about Dewormers

A free meeting led by Dr. Jim Miller, veterinarian and parasitology researcher from the Louisiana State University Veterinary School.

Meeting will be on the Pineland Campus in New Gloucester from 7-8:30 pm, on Thursday, June 23 in Room A in the Pineland Conference Center.

A map of the Pineland Campus can be found here. The Conference Center is located very near the Pineland Entrance off of Rt 231/Intervale Rd.

FMI contact Gary Anderson, Animal & BioScience Specialist, 5735 Hitchner Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5735, Phone 207-581-3240, email [email protected]