A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

The legendary UC-Blackwelder tomato harvester, which arguably saved California's processed tomato industry in the 1960s and raised concerns that machines were depriving people of employment, was ...

Karen Brandon is a former national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune who now lives in San Diego County. A hulking, nameless creature lumbers among the citrus trees, its eight arms and eyes in ...

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- If you had pizza or ketchup lately, you may be surprised to know the tomato in it, was probably harvested by a machine made in the Valley. There's a spark in Madera as ...

It's harvest season in Northern California and it takes a lot of modern-day machinery to get food to your table. That modern-day machinery picks, pulls, and sorts just about any kind of produce you ...