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About 80% of those berries will go to Ocean Spray, a massive producer of cranberry products in the U.S. This bog is one of nearly 300 in Massachusetts that cover some 14,000 acres, and this year farmers are projected to produce 2.2 million barrels of cranberries, with one barrel amounting to 100 pounds (45 kilograms).
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).
Middleborough has four wildlife management areas, as well as the Beaver Dam and Great Cedar and Little Cedar Swamps. The town is also the site of several cranberry bogs, especially in the southeastern part of town along the Carver town line. Ocean Spray's headquarters are just over the town line in Lakeville.
Marcus Libby Urann (1885 – April 4, 1963), known as "Mr. Cranberry", [1] was the captain of the 1893 University of Maine football team, [2] one of the founders of Phi Kappa Phi honorary fraternity, [3] a lawyer, a cranberry farmer, one of the founders of Ocean Spray cooperative, a cranberry entrepreneur and executive, and the first commercial producer or inventor of canned cranberry sauce.
Cranberry bogs extend on all sides of her property, which sits 10 feet above sea level. She described her nightmare: All the bogs flooded by storming seas. ... and many are processed by Ocean ...
That’s what Ocean Spray has always been known for ever since the company was formed nearly 100 years ago. But just because it has remained consistent doesn’t mean it hasn’t been innovating.
A pair of old cranberry bogs in Mashpee, Chop Chaque, are about to be restored to wetland. The transformation is part of a growing trend on Cape Cod. ... The bogs are present in a 1938 aerial photo.
Mills also popped up along the rivers during the nineteenth century. Today the town is mostly residential, with some farming and cranberry farming. Ocean Spray was first started by several bogs in Hanson, [4] and remained headquartered in Hanson before moving to Plymouth in September 1977. [5]