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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Grape harvesting machines light up the night during this time of the year. They slowly make their way through vineyards to shake off these Pinot Grigio grapes. The nighttime ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 49-year-old Napa man was found dead at a vineyard Monday afternoon after an incident involving a grape-harvesting machine, authorities said. Officials with the California Occupational Safety and ...

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 ...

It’s a crisp September night at Clockspring Vineyards in Plymouth, in the Shenandoah Valley region of Amador County. Tension is in the air. Owners Kathy and Frank Alviso are about to witness a machine ...

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 ...

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 ...