University of Maine Williams Hall Dedication Ceremony

Video of the dedication ceremony of Beryl Warner Williams Hall at the University of Maine held on April 28 to honor the legacy of the Bangor native and UMaine’s first Black graduate to earn a degree in mathematics. Williams went on to have a distinguished academic career at Morgan State University and become an active civic leader in Baltimore

Black and Born in Bangor

This is an oral history of Nancy Dymond. In 1997, Dymond became the first Maine-born African American person to earn a bachelor’s degree in Education from UMaine to then go on and teach in Maine. This audio-visual recording was originally a public program offered by the Eastern Maine Community College in February 2021 as part of Black History Month. The program was presented via Zoom. William Cook, a history teacher and manager of the EMCC library, implemented the program.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aaphotos/1005/thumbnail.jp

Dairy Farm Business Summary: Intensive Grazing Farms New York 2011

E.B. 2012-09Dairy farm managers throughout New York State have been participating in Cornell Cooperative Extension's farm business summary and analysis program since the early 1950's. Managers of each participating farm business receive a comprehensive summary and analysis of the farm business. The farms included in the study are a subset of New York State farms participating in the Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program (DFBS). Twenty-eight New York farms indicated that they grazed dairy cows at least three months, moving to a fresh paddock at least every three days and more than 30 percent of the forage consumed during the growing season wasfrom grazing. Operators of these 28 farms were asked to complete a grazing practices survey. Twenty-one of the farms did complete it. The study centered on 28 New York farms which were not organic farms and were not first year grazers. Throughout the study, the grazing dairies are compared to the “Non-Grazers”, which are 58 farms with similar herd size to the 28 grazing farms

Dairy Farm Business Summary: Intensive Grazing Farms New York 2010

E.B. 2011-06Dairy farm managers throughout New York State have been participating in Cornell Cooperative Extension's farm business summary and analysis program since the early 1950's. Managers of each participating farm business receive a comprehensive summary and analysis of the farm business. The farms included in the study are a subset of New York State farms participating in the Dairy Farm Business Summary and Analysis Program (DFBS). Twenty-seven New York farms indicated that they grazed dairy cows at least three months, moving to a fresh paddock at least every three days and more than 30 percent of the forage consumed during the growing season was from grazing. Operators of these 27 farms were asked to complete a grazing practices survey. Eighteen of the farms did complete it. The study centered on 27 New York farms which were not organic farms and were not first year grazers. Throughout the study, the grazing dairies are compared to the “Non-Grazers”, which are 72 farms with similar herd size to the 27 grazing farms