Northland Cranberries, Inc. is the world's largest grower of cranberries, it has 2,841 acres in production and 20,000 acres of support land. Northland operates 20 growing properties in the central and northern parts of Wisconsin and 4 in Massachusetts.

Northland was established as a public company in 1987, when five companies formed a partnership. It was the largest supplier of cranberries in the Ocean Spray cooperative, the company voted to go independent in 1992 and assume responsibility for marketing its own fruit through contracts with major manufacturers of cranberry based consumer products. Today Northland is the only publicly owned and actively traded cranberry company in the United States.

Northland just completed a $5.0 million juice concentrating plant, they are positioned to market cranberry concentrate and other value-added cranberry products to tra

Cranberries are a native species to Wisconsin. Commercial farming of cranberries began near the town of Berlin in 1860 and were grown in ditches.

After harvesting the bed is flooded with water again for the winter. This water freezes and protects the vines from cold winter temperatures and keeps winds from drying the vines out. While there is ice on the plants trucks drive onto the beds to spread out about 1/2 an inch of ice on the ice. When the ice melts in the spring the sand falls below the plant. This allows new vines to easily grow and root into he sand. Frost is another problem for farmers so they sprinkle the vines with water. As the water freezes, heat is released, this protects the plants from frost damage.

Cranberries are Wisconsin's largest fruit crop and are being grown on about 12,000 acres in 18 of Wisconsin's 72 counties. Besides the 12,000 acres for growing Wisconsin has over 100,000 other acres. 23,000 of the

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