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 ...

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 ...

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 ...