Whats Temperature in Cranberry Bogs?
Wisconsin is on pace to produce the largest cranberry crop in the nation’s history, a federal agricultural agency said this week. The state is projected to produce 3.75 million barrels of the tart berries, which would be about 2.5 percent more than last year’s record-setting crop of 3.66 million barrels. Wisconsin will have led the nation in cranberry production for 12 straight years, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Massachusetts would be next with 1.75 million barrels, followed by New Jersey at 490,000 barrels. I remember from when we had a place at Eagle River, Wis., in the 1990s and watched Channel 12 from Rhinelander at night for news, weather and sports, part of the weather report was giving the temperatures in the cranberry bogs. Tom Lochner, executive director of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association, said cranberry consumption is growing throughout the world. “There are more than 700 cranberry products on the market today, so people c
