Why cranberries float

In fact, some growers use helicopters to assist with the harvest. The main growing regions in the United States, Massachusetts and Wisconsin lead the way, with Michigan in Oregon coming back in third and fourth. Little known fact, if you took each cranberry grown in North America on an annual basis, and stretched them from Boston to Los Angeles, you could make that round-trip times!

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Wet harvested cranberries are used for juices, sauces, sweetened dried cranberries, ingredients in other processed foods or in nutraceutical products.

Water is applied through the sprinkler system to protect the ripening cranberries from freezing. This can occur anytime the temperature drops below damaging levels, usually between late evening and early morning hours.

See the Fall Frost page for more photos of frost protection. Ditches are necessary for the flooding and drainage of a bog. The network of ditches must be kept free flowing. Ditch cleaning is usually done in the spring and fall by hand or a mini-excavator.

The mud piles are removed by either a bog vehicle or helicopter. Dry Harvesting Dry harvesting uses walk-behind machines to comb the berries off the vines into burlap bags. Wet Harvesting Cranberries have pockets of air inside the fruit. Frost Protection Water is applied through the sprinkler system to protect the ripening cranberries from freezing. Ditch cleaning Ditches are necessary for the flooding and drainage of a bog.