Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting machine is the perfect example of how grain harvesting has evolved ...

An innovative project to develop a networked system with sensors that would enable harvest machinery to automatically recognize its surroundings and react to changes was started in July 2014 and ran ...

His cranberry fields flooded with 6 inches of water, Dan Brockman drives his new harvesting machine — romantically named the ruby slipper — through the vines. Steel, finger-like rods submerged in the ...

Harvesting delicate fruit and vegetables with robots is hard, and increasingly us humans no longer want to do these jobs. The pressure to find engineering solutions is intense and more and more ...

Knocking down mesquite hasn't been a problem in the past. Picking it up and getting it off the land has, said a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher. That will change with a new mesquite ...

A study of a 'Brown Snout' cider apples compared total harvested fruit weight, labor hours, tree and fruit damage, and fruit and juice quality for machine harvest and hand harvest. Results showed the ...