Strawberry season is a blip on the calendar, a few weeks in June when produce auctions and roadside stands burgeon with fresh, red berries. For Delton Zimmerman, it’s also the time to bring out his ...

Could machine-harvested blueberries have hand-picked quality? That’s the question a national team of scientists is hoping to answer, and it could impact Skagit County blueberry farms. “For large-scale ...

DEBLOIS, Maine — Mary Marshall grew up living the life of a migrant farmer, spending hours under the hot summer sun picking wild blueberries with her parents and eight siblings, then ending the day ...

An international patent dispute has broken out over berry harvesters between farm machinery manufacturers in Washington state and Serbia, which had previously cooperated on equipment sales. Blueline ...

July is the month for strawberries, cream, Wimbledon… and now robots. And while the fruit has long posed a challenge to machinery makers as it is easy to bruise and difficult to extract, a new piece ...