Which is better — hand-picked grapes vs. those grapes harvested by a machine? Those who pick their grapes by hand proclaim they expend the effort so as not to damage the grapes. They claim their ...

Self-driving carts in California’s farming industry show great promise. Slowly, silently, effortlessly. The autonomous grape cart does not necessarily attract much attention as it drives through the ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Grape harvesting machines light up the night during this time of the year. They slowly make their way through vineyards to shake off these Pinot Grigio grapes. The nighttime ...

The tipping point for many Willamette Valley growers came in 2013 when wine grapes remained on the vine because there were simply too few people in the labor pool to pick fruit. Labor shortages have ...

Last year’s grape harvest was a harrowing scramble at Mirko Cappelli’s Tuscan vineyard. With the Italian border closed because of the pandemic, the Eastern European workers he had come to rely on ...

SANTA ROSA, CA - AUGUST 27: A crew of vineyard workers quickly move from vine-to-vine to harvest several tons of pinot noir grapes under a clear, cool sky on August 27, 2018, near Santa Rosa, ...

Suisun Valley, perfectly nestled between coastal mountain ranges southeast of Napa, is a wine grower’s paradise and the fruits of their labor are being pulled from vines each day from now through ...