Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates ...

Robotic strawberry harvester developed by Washington State University scientists being tested in the field. (A robotic ...

In the verdant hills of Washington state’s Palouse region, Andrew Nelson’s tractor hums through the wheat fields on his 7,500-acre farm. Inside the cab, he’s not gripping the steering wheel—he’s on a ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could ...