A Bay Area ag tech startup held grower demonstrations of its autonomous platforms on July 22 in Washington’s Yakima Valley as the company courts the Northwest tree fruit market. Bonsai Robotics of San Jose, California, makes compact, driverless farm equip... See more
A solar-powered FineField mechanical blueberry harvester begins harvesting for the fresh market in May at Pinebloom Farms in Southwest Georgia. The farm programs autonomous Burro carts to follow the machines and help manage bins. (Courtesy Caroline Gray) ... See more
The economic malaise of the fruit industry has claimed one of the nation’s largest, vertically integrated, deciduous tree fruit companies. The June bankruptcy filing of Brewster Heights Packing and Orchards shows how multiple years of rising costs and low... See more
Washington growers initially got a 10-year head start growing the WA 38 apple over the rest of North America. Now, they will get to keep to themselves the apple marketed as Cosmic Crisp for another five years. In April, Washington State University extende... See more
One of Washington’s largest tree fruit producers has signed a letter of intent to purchase a fellow industry titan out of bankruptcy, which would create one of the largest fruit companies in the United States and control nearly a quarter of the Northwest’... See more
