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Regionalized 

 Extension 

 Approach Examined 



Reprinted from the Weekly Market 

 Bulletin, Sepiemier 12, 1990. 



Leaders of New England's six land 

 grant universities have often talk- 

 ed about ways to better serve the 

 research and educational needs of 

 agriculture and forestry of this re- 

 gion through cooperative programs 

 organized across state lines. 



A number of agreements concern- 

 ing teaching programs have been 

 worked out and there have been 

 joint efforts in such areas as infor- 

 mational publications. 



Now the Council of Presidents of 

 the six institutions is beginning to 

 design a model for a region- wide 

 Cooperative Extension Consorti- 

 um to make possible the formal 

 sharing of extension resources 



Curt Givan, 

 New Chairperson 

 of Plant Biology at 

 UNH, writes: 



"/ am very pleased to have 

 joined the Plant Biology De- 

 partment at UNH for what I 

 hope will be a long and fruitful 

 association. The Department 

 derives its strength from its di- 

 versity and its multi-pronged 

 mission in teaching, research, 

 and agricultural extension 

 work. 



"It is my hope and intention 

 that the Department will, as 

 one of its principle activities, 

 promote scientific advances 

 that will benefit plant growers 

 in New Hampshire and else- 

 where. This will involve con- 

 tinuing interactions betweenthe 

 Plant Biology Department at 

 UNH and the growers to the 

 benefit of both parties." 



THK PlANTSMAN 



throughout New England. Accord- 

 ing to the Chronicle of Higher 

 Education, the effort could resul tin 

 the merger of the entire coopera- 

 tive extension program in the six 

 states. 



"We're not quite sure yet how it's 

 going to work," says Bill Lord, 

 UNH Extension Fruit Specialist 

 and New Hampshire's member of 

 the project team, "but there's al- 

 ready a tremendous amount of 

 New England-wide cooperation." 

 Bill gave the area in which he 

 works as an example: educational 

 meetings, research, and agent 

 training are already being planned 

 and developed by the New England 

 fruit specialists as a team. So 

 whatever develops may not be an 

 actual merger, but a "continued 

 development and refinement" of 

 processes already in motion. 



Lord is very positive. He says 

 that the Director of New Hamp- 

 shire Cooperative Extension, Peter 

 Home, is looking at this as a way 

 "to enhance — not replace— pro- 

 grams." There has been a serious 

 erosion of staff members because of 

 cuts in government funding, so this 

 growing cooperation between the 

 specialists in each state should 

 benefit the entire region. 



Foundation gi-ant funds are un- 

 derwriting the project, which 

 should take about a year to com- 

 plete. If it works in New England, 

 the whole effort could become a 

 model for strengthening Exten- 

 sion's role across the nation, its 

 sponsors say. 



New Compost 

 Facility 



On October 8, Waste Manage- 

 ment of New Hampshire, Inc., 

 opened a state-of-the-art lined 

 compost facility adjacent to the 

 Turnkey Landfill in Rochester. 

 This facility will initially handle 

 unbagged leaves. The tipping fee 

 for utilizing the facility will be 

 $15.00 for standard one-ton pick- 

 ups. Hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. 



Monday through Friday and 7 until 

 noon on Saturday. Customers 

 bringing bagged leaves to the fa- 

 cility will be surcharged $1.00 per 

 bag. 



For further information, call Scott 

 Keil, Marketing Manager, at 

 1-800-847-5303. 



Show Time in 

 New Hampshire 



From mid-winter through early 

 spring, a wide range of horticul- 

 tural shows take place in New 

 Hampshire. At first glance, one 

 seems only to repeat another, but 

 each has its own special emphasis 

 and each is worth attending. 



First on the calendar is the New 

 Hampshire Farm & Forest Exposi- 

 tion on February 7-9 at the Center 

 of New Hampshire Holiday Inn 

 and Convention Center in Man- 

 chester. Donna and Zib (603) 

 271-3552) have some new ideas 

 and say everything's moving along 

 just fine. 



Less than a month later (March 

 6-10), the Granite State Garden 

 and Flower Show is held at the 

 National Guard Armory on Canal 

 Street in Manchester. 



This year the theme is "Through 

 the Garden Gate" and the commit- 

 tee plans to erect a large garden 

 gate just inside the armory doors 

 through which visitors will pass 

 into "the gardens." Garden catego- 

 ries this year are "Urban" "Natu- 

 ralistic," "Traditional," "Tropical," 

 and "Functional." 



Twelve exhibitors (filling approxi- 

 mately 6,200 sq.') have signed up 

 so far. Other people interested in 

 doing so should contact Booth 

 Hemingway; (207)439-2241. 



The displays will be judged, com- 

 peting for seventeen awards and a 

 cup. There will be a flower auction, 

 floral arrangements, commercial 



