Surrounded by shiny new tractors, Carl Capps spends most days talking about horsepower, hydraulics and transmissions. He paid little attention to anti- and pro-immigration activists. Then the ...

LODI, Calif. (AP) — Roaring up and down the rows of ripe pinot grigio grapes, the mechanical picker is a model of efficiency on a bright harvest day. Slim rods grip the vines and shake vigorously, ...

NAPA (CBS SF) -- A Napa vineyard worker was killed Monday in an accident involving a grape harvesting machine, authorities said. Cal Fire responded to a report of a worker stuck in a grape-picking ...

With more vineyards starting up, it is becoming harder to attract enough pickers Most of Tasmania's wine grapes are still picked by hand but mechanical harvesters are becoming more popular About 95 ...

IT’S the latest thing in grape harvesting and a sure sign that Tasmania’s wine industry is coming of age. Normally, it takes a crew of 24 pickers up to seven hours to harvest one hectare of grapes but ...

A contract grape harvester is the first to import a new type of machine that removes stems from grapes during the harvest process. Stem removal takes away the chance of wine developing 'green ...

In the span of a little more than a decade in the late 1800s, New Mexico went from producing 16,000 gallons of wine to producing nearly 1 million gallons of wine, making the state fifth in the nation ...

Grape harvesting always evokes images of students toiling under the sun on some Pyrenean hillside. But the truth is that 90% of grapes around the world are harvested mechanically, thanks to the fact ...

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 ...

New Holland Braud 9060L grape harvester, year of manufacture 2017, engine hours 1400 hrs, harvest hours 800 hrs, standard equipment, rear tires 600/55-30.4, large co Der Clemens Mulcher ist ein ...

Using mechanical pruning like above can save between 60% to 80% of labor operation costs per acre compared to manual pruning alone. (Hector Amezcua/UC Davis) Wine grape growers in California and ...