“We’ve never done a harvest with all well water before,” Lee said. His farm, which sprawls across 1,800 acres, normally draws water from the Wading River to feed 130 acres of cranberry bog ...

John Darlington’s family was growing cranberries in South Jersey even before ... cranberry-producing county in the United States," according to the county's website. The cranberry farm founded ...

“It’s not dire, but it’s making farming more challenging,” Wick said. Some of the largest cranberry farms have sold off land to housing developers, or gotten into the real estate business ...

In the last four months, it has only rained about three inches at the Lee Brothers Cranberry Farm — about a foot ... is a 150-year event," Lee said. And before temperatures dip to single digits ...

The cranberry harvest at Hartley Family Farm begins in October and continues into mid-November. Cold nights are crucial for ripening the berries. "If it’s cold, the berries will become redder ...

Massachusetts cranberry farmers are experiencing a bountiful harvest this year, with projections exceeding 2 million barrels. Steve Ward, a local grower, anticipates his best yield in three years ...

Overall, Maine cranberry growers had a good season, said Charles Armstrong, a cranberry expert at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension who assists farms ... way to harvest, but the ...