The webinar offered in 2023 focused on protected agriculture cropping systems. Protected agriculture encompasses the use of structures and plastics to control the plant growth environment. This series focused on specialty crop production in protected structures that provide passive environmental control such as high tunnels and low tunnels. When viewing the recordings, keep in mind that some recommendations may be outdated, and some links may be broken. Contact your regional extension specialist for more information.
The goal of the series was to give confidence to beginning farmers when starting a fruit farm and to encourage established farmers to diversify their farms. The series provided science-based recommendations, tools and trainings to help farmers. The classes featured in this series recordings include:

• Protected Ag structures and resources – Ramon Arancibia (University of Missouri) & Sarah Szachnieski (Missouri NRCS)
• High tunnel fruit production – Elena Garcia (University of Arkansas)
• Irrigation & crop fertility – Elsa Sanchez and Thomas Ford (Penn State)
• Insect & disease management – Raymond Cloyd (K-State University) & Dan Egel (Purdue University)
• Economics of diversifying high tunnel production – Cary Rivard (K-State University)
• High tunnel tomato production – Patrick Byers & Juan Cabrera-Garcia (University of Missouri)
• Low tunnel production – Ramon Arancibia (University of Missouri)
• Grower panel: winter production in high tunnels – Jason Hirtz (Box Turtle Farm) & Liz Graznak (Happy Hollow Farm)

Please reach out to your local extension specialist if you have any questions about the topics covered in these recordings.

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2023 protected ag structures & resources