Extend your growing season by purchasing or building a high tunnel, also known as a hoophouse. These large, solar-heated greenhouses allow a farmer to increase overall yield and sell the harvest in ...

A high tunnel is a plastic-covered structure that is used to grow crops. It can be temporary or set in place. Crops are usually grown in the ground within the high tunnel, and it's usually unheated.

Farmer-conservationist Will Perkins looks up to tomato plants that are yielding large fruit while some tomato producers across the region have been washed out because of excessive rain. The great ...

When you enjoy juicy tomatoes from a Minnesota farmers market in mid-summer, there’s a good chance they were grown in high tunnels. High tunnel vegetable and fruit production in Minnesota is a ...

SDSU Extension hosted a high tunnel building training May 7-8 and May 14-15 at the SDSU Specialty Crop Research field in Brookings, South Dakota. Workshop partipants constructing a 30-by-96-foot ...

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- GrowSpan Greenhouse Structures is pleased to add the newest product, the High Pro Tunnel, to its comprehensive line of greenhouses and growing ...

I’m experiencing muscle pains I’ve not felt in a long time due to my latest weekend project. I spent several hours performing a balancing act on the loader bucket and arms of my Farmall M in an effort ...