An Agricultural Trade Show

Held on a Working Farm

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Misty Meadows Farm

Hours 9:00 am — 4:00 pm

Things to do and see at Maine Farm Days 2012

Children’s Milking Contest

Ice Cream Vendors

Corn Maze

Forest Service Presentation

Dealer Equipment Demonstrations

Antique Tractor Demonstrations

Maine Dairy Princess Preliminaries

Agribusiness Exhibits

Farm Tours

Children’s Learning Center

Crafter Vendors

Forage Harvest Trials

Pie and Whoopie Pie contests

Chicken Barbeque

Face Painting

Children’s Coin Scramble

Children’s Free Ice Cream Making

Wagon Tours

4-H Working Steer Show

Horse Scooting and Twitching Contest

Corn Variety Trials

Maine Farm Days 2011

August 22-23, 9:00am - 4:00pm

Pesticide Credit Workshops

2012 Maine Farm Days,

Misty Meadows Farm, Clinton, Maine

1 credit per workshop (approved)

Wednesday, August 22 ,2012

10:00 am to 11:00 am Pest Issues & You - An Inter-

active Discussion with John Jemison, Soil & Water

Quality Specialist, UMaine Cooperative Extension.

John is the current chair of the BPC.

11:10 am to 12:10 pm Fruit & Vegetable Pests In-

teractive Quiz with Clay Kirby, Extension Entomolo-

gist, UMaine Cooperative Extension

1:00 to 2:00 pm Common Pests of Cranberries in

Maine with Charles Armstrong, Cranberry Specialist,

UMaine Cooperative Extension

2:10 to 3:10 pm Insects in Your Woodlot: Good, Bad

& Pretty Cute with Colleen Teerling, Entomologist,

Maine Forest Service

Thursday, August 23, 2012

10:00 to 11:00 am IPM Planning & Tools for Farm-ers to Write an IPM Plan with Kathy Murray, Enot-mologist, Maine Dept. of Agriculture.

11:10 am to 12:10 pm Cover Crops & No-Till Corn Silage Production with Rick Kersbergen - Extension Educator, UMaine Cooperative Extension

1:00 to 2:00 pm What’s New in Pesticide Risks: Tox-icity & Exposure with LeBelle Hicks, Toxicologist, Board of Pesticides Control, Maine Department of Agriculture

2:10 to 3:10 pm Pesticide Poisoning: Horror Stories with Richard Brzozowksi, Extension Educator, UMaine Cooperative Extension.

Maine Farm Days gives the public and farmers the opportunity to visit a working farm, see the operation of new equipment and technology, and provide an at-mosphere for everyone to walk through, observe, and educate themselves about the different areas of agricul-ture. Misty Meadows Farm of Clinton, Maine is owned and operated by John and Belinda Stoughton and Thomas and Kimberly Wright. The farms current milking herd is 600 and 475 young stock. The total herd has risen from 200 total in 1996. The farm is currently averaging 79lbs of milk per cow for a total average of 40,000lbs. shipped per day. Milk quality is a key success area with 120,000 somatic cell count on milk and a current 24,000 lb herd average. All their milk is shipped to Oakhurst Dairy in Portland, Maine. Their farm is comprised of 1050 acres of cropland with 500 in corn production and 550 of grass silage, of this total 300 acres are rented.

Maine Farm Days 2011, August 22-23

Aerial view of Misty Meadows Farm in Clinton, Maine

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

9 am

4-H Working Steer Show

10 - 11 am

Commissioner Breakfast

11:00 am

Whoopie Pie and Apple Pie Contest Registration must bring recipe with entry

12:00 pm

Forage Contest

Deadline for Samples for Contest

1:00 pm

Whoopie Pie and Apple Pie Contest

1:00 pm

Book Signing

T.B.A.

Children’s Coin Scramble

Thursday, August 23, 2012

10am

Pageant Preliminaries

11am

Horses/ Scooting and Twitching Contest

Noon

Milking Contest

1:00 pm

Book Signing

T.B.A.

Children’s Ice Cream Making