MOOMilk scores $3.9M equity investment

Organic milk producer MOOMilk has attracted a $3.9 million equity investment, the largest cash infusion since the company's founding in 2009.The deal...

ME exporters change tack in marketing abroad

Think marketing in the United States, and a few methods spring immediately to mind: advertising, publicity, social media, and maybe trade or consumer shows. But when marketing to foreign...

Oakhurst campaign fights out-of-state dairy pressures

Two weeks after Texas-based Dean Foods closed its Garelick Farms processing plant in Bangor, Oakhurst Dairy launched its "Keep Your Milk In Maine" marketing campaign, displaying a...

KVCC gets $2.5M grant for ag program

Kennebec Valley Community College won a $2.5 million federal grant to develop degree programs in agricultural business and sustainable agriculture.The...

Maine syrup makers brace for widespread variability

While most Mainers enjoy the kickoff of the state's maple season in late February or early March, Eric Ellis's syrup season kicked off in late January, with his workers...

Belfast food hub creates new market for local vendors

The world almost didn't get to taste Julie Romano's salsa.

MPBN nets $750K USDA grant

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network has won a $750,000 digital transition grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program, which granted awards to only 10...

Grants promote year-round produce sales

On the kind of cold December day that usually finds farmers looking at seed catalogs and dreaming of spring, Ralph Turner is welcoming customers to his greenhouses at Laughing Stock Farm...