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.

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight but pauses to decide which individual tomato is worth picking. Instead of ...

Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers get to grips with a new-age way of picking apples using a fruit harvesting machine. Photo / Jared Morgan It is called the Tecnofruit CF-105 and the fruit-harvesting machine ...

KUCHING: Sarawak Plantation Bhd has developed its own innovative oil palm fruit harvesting machine to address the long-standing shortage of fruit harvesters faced by the industry and boost production ...

Harvesting delicate fruit and vegetables with robots is hard, and increasingly us humans no longer want to do these jobs. The pressure to find engineering solutions is intense and more and more ...

For decades, farmworkers have stooped down to pick ripe cantaloupes off vines along the ground. Now, in an agricultural community near the California-Arizona border, a harvesting machine ...

Getting more blueberries from the field to the grocery store, without hurting their quality, is the focus of a new nationwide research project led by a faculty member in the University of Georgia ...

KUCHING, Oct 14 (Bernama) -- Sarawak would like to promote two palm fruit harvesting machines produced by Sarawak Plantation Bhd (SPB) globally. Sarawak Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg said the ...

His cranberry fields flooded with 6 inches of water, Dan Brockman drives his new harvesting machine — romantically named the ruby slipper — through the vines. Steel, finger-like rods submerged in the ...