Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting ...

Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human ...

The grapes in Paul Hoover’s Still Waters Vineyard are ready to be harvested. For the first time, many of them will not be picked by hand. “My joke is, the machine is ready to go to work every morning ...

A study of a 'Brown Snout' cider apples compared total harvested fruit weight, labor hours, tree and fruit damage, and fruit and juice quality for machine harvest and hand harvest. Results showed the ...

WAPATO, Wash. — It was a tight squeeze in the 10-foot-wide rows. A few limbs ladened with Fuji apples were broken as the Bandit Xpress-DBR harvest assist platform navigated the Valicoff Fruit Co.

Good safety habits are vital for anyone who operates a combine, corn picker or other grain harvesting machine. Failure to observe safety practices can be fatal! However, constant alertness is also ...

It's harvest season in Northern California and it takes a lot of modern-day machinery to get food to your table. That modern-day machinery picks, pulls, and sorts just about any kind of produce you ...

MOUNT VERNON, WA - Cider - or "hard cider" as it is typically known in the United States - is experiencing a real revival. The fermented apple juice with 0.5% to 7% alcohol-by-volume is the fastest ...