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 ...

Slowly, silently, effortlessly. The autonomous grape cart does not necessarily attract much attention as it drives through the rows at Parminder Brar’s 900-acre family farm in Kern Country, Ca. But it ...

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 ...

Under a cloudly marine layer, workers were out the morning Aug. 30 at Martinelli Winery’s Zio Tony Ranch in Sebastopol, methodically picking pinot noir grapes to go into premium rosé wine available to ...

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 ...