Abstract: A machine for harvesting black currants or other soft fruit comprises a frame, ground engaging wheels for supporting the frame, traction means for driving the frame over the ground along a row of soft fruit bushes, a picking zone defined by said frame, guides for guiding branches of each bush into the picking zone as the machine traverses the bush, rotary shakers for engaging the branches in the picking zone and shaking fruit therefrom and fruit collecting means directly below the picking zone for collecting fruit shaken from the branches. The machine is provided with a longitudinally extending open top channel into which fruit can fall, a fan for providing a flow of air along the channel and ducting connecting the fan to the open top channel so as to provide a current of air along the channel to convey the fruit along the channel.