Protected Agriculture Goes From High Tunnels To High Tech

Being flexible and adapting to the times critical for Central Florida’s Vo-LaSalle Farms.

Innovation isn’t only happening at the top. Some of the most interesting ideas in the fruit industry are being executed by small growers.

Growing cherries under protective covers offers several advantages, including reducing the incidence of cracking.

Saylor’s Farm experiments with hydroponic production yield earlier, higher-quality and more marketable crops.

A four-page fact sheet is available to help high tunnel tomato growers fight leaf mold.

Perhaps it’s time you took a look at what’s going on under cover.

High tunnels are a growing niche, providing growers with high-quality produce, a competitive edge in market arrival time, and a more sustainable and efficient use of inputs.

Florida Grower managing editor Paul Rusnak says it’s time for growers to come in from the outside.

High tunnels help Alto Straughn push earliness and yields of his crops to new levels.

Three day training available for specialty crop growers from Ohio State University.

High tunnels not only provide vegetable growers with an opportunity to get a jump on the growing season, they offer numerous environmental benefits as well.

Organic vegetable farm uses conservation to make each acre count.

Points to consider when constructing your high tunnel walls.

Erik Jertberg fears the disconnect from food to fork and how it feeds the disconnect of ballot box and wallet. “Without an understanding of where their food comes from, and what it takes to get it there, our consumers will believe in an ideological standard when they vote, but purchase the food for their table based on a free market economics standard,” he says.

Dave Dyrek of Leaning Shed Farm offers pointers on pest control, irrigation technique.

Choose the proper site and construction materials and heed advice on irrigation and crop protection options.

Learn more about this season extension technique at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Batavia, NY.

Effort earns research team leaders the 2013 USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Partnership Award for Innovative Programs and Projects.

Skeeter Bethea has grown fresh produce in Florida for years and has learned a lot about the nuances […]