10-14-15 cranberry harvest

MILWAUKEE (AP) —The fall harvest of Wisconsin’s official state fruit is in full swing.  Cranberries are the state’s number one fruit crop and are grown on 21,000 acres in 20 counties in central and northern Wisconsin.  This year federal agricultural officials expect Wisconsin’s cranberry industry to produce five million barrels of fruit. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says eight million barrels of cranberries are expected to be harvested across the country.  The cranberries that are made into juice, sauce or sweetened dried fruit are ‘wet harvested.’ The cranberry beds are flooded with water and a machine moves through the marsh and removes the berries from the vines. The cranberries that float to the surface are corralled and pumped out of the bed.

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