Grapes are a fun and healthy snack and can grow well in Iowa. Experts have recommendations about which grape varieties to grow and offer best practices for harvesting and producing. They're ...

Manual harvesting remains a major bottleneck in muscadine grape production, accounting for up to 40% of production costs. This study tackles that challenge by identifying the key traits and genetic ...

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 ...

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 ...

My mother, who grew up outside Boston, loved telling the story about one of her early visits "up home" to visit my father’s family in rural Whitefield, Maine. This happened in the 1940s. By then, ...

It’s rather nondescript: A green plastic tub on a shaded porch. Inside the tub are quart-size freezer bags, each filled with 50 grape berries in dark reddish purples or rounded yellow greens. It would ...

With the harvest season in full swing, growers and vintners across the northern hemisphere are busy bringing in truckloads of grapes, firing up their de-stemmers, filling bins and crushing away. At ...

The sun is only just beginning to rise when the crew of vineyard stewards at Bethel Heights Vineyard begins working. The fog will burn off in the hills of West Salem, Oregon, soon enough. But so early ...