Orchards struggle with costs as apple harvest begins New York will produce an estimated 32,300 million bushels of apples for the 2022 crop year -- but inflated costs, government regulation and ...

You may notice more apples left on Michigan trees this year. That's because orchards say it does not make economic sense to harvest all the fruit.

A quintessential sign of autumn, apple picking evokes warm memories with family and friends. Choose your favorite from our list of top orchards across the U.S.

Paul Brace who’s been a farmer at the orchard for 45 years says that while last year's harvest season wasn’t as plentiful, this year certainly has been as this year all of the trees planted ...

There are hundreds of tons of apples still on the trees, and the orchard’s owners want to get them out of there, soon.

Apple does not fall far from family tree in Madison Growers across the state, including North Star Orchards, marked the beginning of the prime picking season by celebrating the 23rd annual Maine ...

In Michigan, researchers are developing an automated harvester that sucks apples off trees with two robotic arms.

After nearly 25 years, is the popular McDonald Peach Orchard in Apple Valley ready to permanently close?

With rising production costs for Michigan growers, Michigan State has teamed up with the USDA to create a robotic apple picker.

After the one-day public harvest on Sept. 28, McDonald shuttered the “old and tired” 200 tree orchard, which began producing smaller-sized fruit as the orchard battles age, critters and ...

What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or ...

You may notice more apples left on Michigan trees this year. That’s because orchards say it does not make economic sense to harvest all the fruit.