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 ...

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 ...