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Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is an American agricultural cooperative of cranberry growers headquartered in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.It currently has over 700 member growers (in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Florida, British Columbia and other parts of Canada, as well as Chile).
The cranberry farm founded by Darlington's family was the state's largest by the early 1900s, when it supported a company town now preserved as Whitesbog Village in Browns Mills.
Cranberry farm. By 1900, 8,700 hectares (21,500 acres) were under cultivation in the New England region. [13] In 2021, the total output of cranberries harvested in the United States was 360,000 metric tons (790 million pounds), with Wisconsin as the largest state producer (59% of total), followed by Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Oregon.
Chatsworth, New Jersey — At the age of 78, Stephen Lee III is facing an uncertain future.. Six generations of his family have farmed 135 acres of cranberry bogs in South Jersey. "In farming, you ...
Ocean Spray is a cooperative of more than 700 family-owned cranberry farms that harvest more than 220 billion cranberries a year for more than 1,000 different products, including cranberry sauce ...
In 1910, a controversy arose when an agent of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) issued a report of child labor in the cranberry industry. As one third of the cranberry farms was harvested by J.J. White Inc., Elizabeth White wrote letters and spoke out against the report, defending her father's company and industry.
Between catastrophic floods and longer spells of heat, cranberry farmers are finding their work imperiled by the reality of a rapidly warming planet.
The Double Trouble Historic Village was originally a cranberry farm and packing plant. The Double Trouble Company was formed by Edward Crabbe in 1909 to sell timber, millwork products, and cranberries. [2] Many sawmills have been in the town since the mid-18th century.