In the wave of agricultural automation, fruit picking has long been a technical challenge. Traditional manual harvesting is inefficient and costly, while fully automated robots often struggle with ...

Imagine growing your own backyard fruit orchard, but without having to do much in the way of pest control, weed management, or fertilizing because the carefully selected companion plants support and ...

This story is part of an AI series looking at how WSU is driving innovation in research and teaching through artificial ...

Mechanical harvesting of fruit trees represents a transformative approach to modern orchard management. By applying controlled vibrational excitations, these systems selectively detach ripe fruit ...

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 ...