Normally, it takes a crew of 24 pickers up to seven hours to harvest one hectare of grapes but this $500,000 Pellenc 4680 made short work of 11ha of sparkling grapes in 20 hours at Ian Roberts’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Oregonians for Immigration Reform” have found true love — in the form of a fancy, expensive grape harvesting machine that goes by the sexy name of New Holland Braud. According to the Oregonian the ...

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 ...

Smoke could still be seen rising in the distance from the Jerusalem and Rocky fires as a small group of grape harvesters made their way through tightly spaced rows of vines at Matchbook Wines in the ...

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 ...