MOXEE -- On a small patch of land here at Roy Farms, where hops typically climb a long strand of twine on their journey to harvest, an experiment is under way to see if a shorter trip over plastic ...

Sometimes they call it ''the blue machine," and other times it's the machine that grower Don Desmarais built 15 years ago in Mabton. Technically, it's a low-trellis hop picker. The folks at Green Acre ...

Growing up in Santa Rosa, Florian Dauenhauer had no idea his lifelong hobby of tinkering would one day save his struggling business and revolutionize an industry. When Dauenhauer and his brother Joe ...

MOXEE — The annual hop harvest is underway at CLS Farms near Moxee, and over the next month it will involve several hundred workers, around-the-clock effort and the near-constant hum of machinery and ...