The blueberry industry continues to mechanically harvest more fruit for the fresh market with Oxbo and FineField emerging as ...

Increased labor costs and a diminishing supply of workers — causing fierce competition for farm employees — are pushing fresh blueberry growers toward mechanized harvest. The best machines, as well as ...

Mary Marshall grew up living the life of a migrant farmer, spending hours under the hot summer sun picking wild blueberries with her parents and eight siblings, then ending the day bathing in a lake.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James, 3, and Graham Fordyce ride the tractor after setting up the irrigation at Fordyce Farm on July 13 in Salem. One of Damien ...

Ike Hubbard, 84, designed and made tools for working the land by hand for decades in the Hubbard Rake Co. shop at his historical family homestead.