MOUNT VERNON, WA - Cider - or "hard cider" as it is typically known in the United States - is experiencing a real revival. The fermented apple juice with 0.5% to 7% alcohol-by-volume is the fastest ...

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 ...

In 2022, the dried fruit industry struggled to get all of its crop harvested due to a lack of machinery The first new dried fruit harvester manufactured locally in a decade was delivered to a ...

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 ...

Farm robot boosts harvest success by clearing leaves, helping farmers tackle labor shortages with smarter automation.

The world's first automated mango picking robot has been used to harvest fruit in central Queensland. The three-metre-tall robot has nine arms which extend to gently pick the fruit, turning it ...

LAKELAND | Once touted as the ultimate solution to frequent labor shortages during the citrus harvesting season, mechanical harvesting has declined by 74 percent during the past two seasons, yet ...

LAKELAND -- Little has changed over the past few hundred years in how oranges are picked. Human workers climb up a ladder, handpick the fruit into bags and later dump them into bins. All that could be ...

A study out of Washington State University sought to determine if there is a measurable impact of harvest method on the phenolic profile of 'Brown Snout' juice and cider to better inform equipment ...

A study of a 'Brown Snout' cider apples compared total harvested fruit weight, labor hours, tree and fruit damage, and fruit and juice quality for machine harvest and hand harvest. Results showed the ...