Automated Harvest In Fruit Orchards Remains a Challenge

Equipment companies take to the field to demonstrate ideal weed control.

Ag researchers pin hopes on precision technologies, mechanization, and improved herbicides.

Even wine grape growers who report no shortage of labor say they’re paying through the nose.

Growers rely on all types of equipment on their farms, some machines more preferred than others. Gail Fenton of Fenton’s Produce offers up a handful.

Robotic equipment and monitoring technologies, such as remote and proximal sensing, provide new opportunities to Michigan grape growers.

See how Gail and Paul Fenton research ways to lighten labor demands and make their crops competitive.

With labor becoming scarcer and more expensive, grape producers are relying more than ever on mechanization.

An increasingly larger percentage of U.S. fruits and vegetables are being imported, a troubling trend for growers.

Harvesting challenges reflect growers’ increasing move to mechanized options.

UC Davis study reviews best practices for wine grape growers.

Manufacturers of orchard products say that’s how they can best serve their grower-customers.

When it comes to farm equipment, necessity is the mother of invention. 

Tree fruit versions of robotic house vacuums and lawnmowers will soon simplify life for growers.

Take a peek at the many projects designed to boost fruit grower profitability under way at a university lab in the heart of California’s San Joaquin Valley.

University of California trial could be a “game-changer,” as mechanically pruning vines cost just a tenth as much as hand-pruning.

The labor is just not going to there to harvest the fruit, so you need to start preparing your workers for a brave new world.

Competition among fruit and nut growers is gaining intensity in a wide variety of crops, necessitating a plan of action.

You can hope H-2A lasts forever and bury your head in the sand, but when you pull it out, everyone might be gone.

Research has potential to improve efficiency and quality of fresh market blueberries.