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 ...

NAPA COUNTY, Calif. (KTVU) - A vineyard worker was killed Monday in an accident involving a grape picking machine. Cal Fire confirms crews responded to reports of a person stuck in a grape picker at ...

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 ...

A worker was killed Monday afternoon at a Napa vineyard after getting stuck in a grape harvesting machine. The Napa man was working near the machine at Deconinck Vineyards when his clothing caught in ...

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 ...

The grapes in Paul Hoover’s Still Waters Vineyard are ready to be harvested. For the first time, many of them will not be picked by hand. “My joke is, the machine is ready to go to work every morning ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Experienced independent writer with a background in the wine industry. Many family vineyards retain the hand-picking, hand ...

Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while maintaining profitability. Growers are ...

It’s hard to believe we are more than halfway through harvest — it seems like we just experienced the May 18 freeze, but here we are picking grapes and making wine! The weather through September was ...

NAPA, Calif. — A Napa vineyard worker was killed Monday in an accident involving a grape harvesting machine, authorities told KPIX. Cal Fire responded to a report of a worker stuck in a grape-picking ...

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