When was the last time that you had a good grape stomp? Never? Well, I’m happy to say that now’s your chance, to step back in time, to a day when the tradition of grape stomping signals the end of a ...

L'Etoile du Nord Farm Winery is harvesting grapes and making wine for guests at their lakeside farm in central Minnesota. Polly Perkins grabs hold of a vine in her vineyard on Wednesday, Sept. 27, ...

Oct. 24—NORTH STONINGTON — It was around 8 a.m. on Thursday when the rows of grapevines at Jonathan Edwards Winery in North Stonington started filling with the noise of voices and a running tractor.

As harvest draws to a close in Napa Valley's premier wine grape vineyards, a team of UC ergonomics experts is field-testing new equipment that promises to make vineyard work easier and more efficient.

Self-driving carts in California’s farming industry show great promise. Slowly, silently, effortlessly. The autonomous grape cart does not necessarily attract much attention as it drives through the ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif (KFSN) -- Grapes are one of the Valley's top producing crops. Soon, farms across Central California will begin harvesting. And technology changes ...

MILTON, Ga. - You’d expect to have a colorful experience at a place called Painted Horse, right? And it doesn’t get much more colorful than peeling off your shoes and socks and stepping into a horse ...

The tipping point for many Willamette Valley growers came in 2013 when wine grapes remained on the vine because there were simply too few people in the labor pool to pick fruit. Labor shortages have ...

When you hear 'vineyard' you may imagine a leafy canopy with green tendrils along a vine. But if you're talking about the vast acres of wine grapes planted in the Central Valley, then machines are ...

Joe Smith took part in Tuesday morning’s blessing of the grapes in Chautauqua County primarily from gratitude, though he did bring along one prayer for the season. Smith and his wife, Sue Mleczko ...