If you would like Central Maine Power to consult with you before it has trees pruned near your home or business, you can submit an electronic form or write to the company.

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When selling eggs in Maine, the size and grade of the eggs, the name and address of the packer and the statement that refrigeration is required must be on the egg carton or label.

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Giving seeds as wedding guest gifts.

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This tip submitted by Beedy Parker of Camden extols the virtues of dried apples.

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Dairy cows that produce USDA-certified organic milk also produce manure that may gradually replenish soil nutrients and potentially reduce the flow of agricultural pollutants to nearby water sources, according to USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and colleagues.

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Poultry infected with the parasite Eimeria maxima usually develop avian coccidiosis, a disease estimated to cost producers globally more than $1.2 billion each year. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that chickens that consumed ground green tea for two weeks before parasitic infection produced significantly fewer fecal E. maxima oocysts than the control group.

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Due to weather conditions last summer, writer/farmer Gene Logsdon was unable to cultivate his corn, so crabgrass became established. Later he sowed and disked in red clover - inadvertently helping the crabgrass become even better established.

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This might be a good time to consider recycling scrap metal that's sitting around on your farm, according to Extension News.

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Each year, 132 American farm workers are crushed to death as tractors overturn on them. Nearly all such fatalities could be prevented by the presence of a Roll Over Protection Structure (ROPS) on every tractor.

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Recently the Agricultural Health Nurse Program received two separate reports of farm workers who were injured while attempting to drill holes into sealed plow frames in order to mount a hitch or “slow-moving vehicle” sign. These workers received serious skin burns and other injuries when the drill bits penetrated the frames, releasing and igniting flammable gases.

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Metal gasoline containers – cans and tanks – should never be filled while inside a plastic bed liner on a pickup. The action of pumping gasoline into a metal container builds up a static electrical charge. Without proper grounding, the charge has “nowhere to go,” so it continues to build – to the point where it can “jump the gap” between the can and the fuel filler nozzle.

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