On average, cranberries are needed to create a single can of sauce, and it takes more than four thousand cranberries to produce one gallon of juice. Grown on perennial vines, cranberries thrive in acid peat soil found in bogs and marshes. Total harvest in the U. Farmers have improved yield per acre by planting higher producing varieties and improving farming practices.
Where do the berries go once harvested? According to Ocean Spray, the states with the highest appetites for cranberries last year were California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Massachusetts. Internationally, the United Kingdom buys the most cranberries, followed by Germany, Mexico, and France. All rights reserved. The U. Bright red cranberries are visible from space during the harvest season, which occurs from mid-September through mid-November in North America.
These images show a sample of bog harvests in Wisconsin between and captured by the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites. Share Tweet Email. Why it's so hard to treat pain in infants. This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city. Animals Wild Cities This wild African cat has adapted to life in a big city Caracals have learned to hunt around the urban edges of Cape Town, though the predator faces many threats, such as getting hit by cars.
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In Wisconsin, growers have been switching over from using the older water-reel harvester to using harrows. A tractor with tracks is used to pull harrows that are usually built by the growers so the actual design can vary. The harrow has rows of teeth or tines mounted in front and behind the tractor that combs or strips the cranberries off the vines.
Previously the growers would say they were beating berries. Now they're stripping berries. This type of harvesting is most commonly used for berries that are to be used for processed cranberry foods like juice, sauce or sweetened dried cranberries such as Craisins.
Cranberries have four air pockets in them so that they will float once they are removed from the plants. Once they are floating, wind will push them down to one area of the bog where they can then be corralled and loaded up into trucks using special augers or pumps.
Fresh fruit is usually harvested with a raking machine and the berries are deposited into a berry boat that travels alongside. They aren't left to float and be corralled like fruit going for processed use. Fresh fruit berries are usually sorted and packaged on the marsh where they are grown. Cranberries for fresh fruit used to be sorted by hand and even used a bouncing test to determine good fruit from soft fruit that would not bounce out of the machine.
Since it is getting harder and harder to find people willing to do the sorting, some growers are moving toward computerized sorters that use a camera and computer programs to sort out soft berries from the good quality fruit. They still get a last hand sort or two to help assure quality. Fresh fruit is now mostly packaged in 12 ounce bags, a smaller size compared to the 16 ounce bags that were more common years ago.
Some producers also pack fresh fruit into larger bulk boxes that may contain 5, 15 or 30 pounds of fruit. Other growers use a degrassing machine to remove leaves and other debris before the fruit is transported for processing into juice, sauce or other products, therefore requiring much less hand labor. Cranberries are a historically important food crop cultivated for hundreds of years.
It is highly nutritious with many health benefits including antioxidants to fight cancer, assist the immune system, prevent urinary tract problems and provide a good source of vitamin C, dietary fiber as well as many other nutrients and minerals.
While it is not a crop you will see growing as you drive down the highways or gravel roads near your home, if you should ever happen to get the chance to be in central Wisconsin in the fall, you might want to check out the cranberry harvest!
There are many varieties of pumpkins, squashes and gourds available for planting in the garden. Thank you, instructions to reset your password has been sent to your email. A confirmation email has been sent to the email address you used to register your account. Every autumn usually from mid-September until around mid-November in North America and March through May in Chile , cranberries reach their peak of color and flavor and are ready for harvesting.
That's when our growers harvest millions of pounds of cranberries. If you ask us, it's really quite beautiful. A lot of people think that cranberries grow under water. Makes sense, since we usually see the berries floating on top of the water. The bog is flooded with up to 18 inches of water the night before the berries are to be harvested.
Each berry has tiny pockets of air that allow it to float to the surface of the water. Fresh cranberries, the ones you buy in the produce aisle every fall, are harvested using the dry method. It's the best way to get the absolute freshest of berries.
For this, cranberry growers use a mechanical picker that looks like a large lawnmower. It has metal teeth that comb the berries off the vine and deposit them in a burlap sack at the back of the machine. Helicopters are sometimes used to transport the sacks to protect the vines from the traffic of heavy trucks.
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