FARGO, N.D. - Matthew Kleinhenz stood in the front of the room, enthusiastically answering one question after another about the challenges of operating high tunnels: mice, insects and cold well water, ...

ASHLAND - The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced the new High Tunnel Loan Program this Tuesday. A high tunnel is a plastic covered unheated greenhouse that allows farmers to extend the ...

High tunnels - unheated, plastic-covered, relatively inexpensive structures - can extend the growing season. The Ohio State University Extension Service will offer "High Tunnels 101" 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, ...

MABTON - Outside, the sun barely broke through the high clouds and did little to warm the frigid air. Corn and tomato plants were dead for the winter. But inside Hilario Alvarez's greenhouses, peppers ...

Clyde Forbes has been working in vegetable gardens since his family-farm childhood years in York County. These days, the retired middle-school teacher and Cumberland County Master Gardener helps run ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — High tunnel production is catching on in Minnesota. Terry Nennich, a University of Minnesota Extension educator in vegetable and small fruit production, researches production in ...

CLEARBROOK, Minn. — Nearly 100 Minnesota producers will receive financial support to put up seasonal high tunnels on their farms this year as part of an environment conservation program. The USDA's ...

LEWIS, Iowa (AP) -- A research project under way near Lewis could lead to extended growing seasons for Iowa producers and provide them with new foods to market. The work, taking place under the ...

The researchers focused on agricultural systems that use high tunnels, which are plastic, greenhouse-like structures placed over a section of field soil. These structures are used to extend the ...

A study out of Indiana and Purdue Universities sought to gain a better understanding, from the perspective of farmers, of the challenges and advantageous opportunities associated with using high ...