NAPA – The message was clear Wednesday in an auditorium full of wine industry professionals: The machines are taking over the grape harvesting. Vineyard managers who spoke at the 24th annual Vineyard ...

Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while maintaining profitability. Growers are ...

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 ...

PRAIRIE DU SAC (WKOW) -- The Wollersheim Winery & Distillery harvested grapes by hand Saturday for its Domaine Reserve red wine. "There's two ways we pick the grapes," winemaker Philippe Coquard said.

Manual harvesting remains a major bottleneck in muscadine grape production, accounting for up to 40% of production costs. This study tackles that challenge by identifying the key traits and genetic ...

The post When and How to Harvest Grapes is by Jerad Bryant and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. It’s the end of the ...

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 ...

TOWN OF FRANKLIN (WLUK) -- Late summer and early fall temperatures bring grape harvesting season to Wisconsin. Wineries across the state have opportunities for the public to partake in the festivities ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Grapes are being picked off the vines right now that will soon be made into wine. It's October which means it's grape harvesting time across northern Michigan.

With the harvest season in full swing, growers and vintners across the northern hemisphere are busy bringing in truckloads of grapes, firing up their de-stemmers, filling bins and crushing away. At ...