USDA: 2025 cranberry crop trails 2024 output, tracks close to 5-year average
Find out how big the 2025 crop is expected to be and see if your state made the cut as a top cranberry growing spot.
Before cranberries hit your Thanksgiving plate or get dropped into your favorite winter cocktail, the tart, cherry-red fruits take a long float through U.S. bogs. Farm workers then corral the floating berries together and pump or convey them out for processing.
According to 2025 production data from USDA’s Economic Research Service, this season’s cranberry float is looking a little lighter than previous years: the 2025 crop’s total national yields (8.13 million barrels for the year) are projected to decrease by 9% from 2024. Overall, the 2025 projections shouldn’t raise any red flags because the numbers track closely to the crop’s 5-year average (7.95 million barrels).
USDA notes one barrel of cranberries is equal to 100-pounds of the fruit.
Breaking the data down on at a state-by-state level, currently Wisconsin takes the top spot as the highest-producing state. USDA says the state “typically harvests around 60% of the total U.S. crop. This year, Wisconsin cranberry growers are projected to harvest 5.3 million barrels, which sits at 4% above the state’s 3-year average.
Massachusetts sits just behind Wisconsin as the second most-productive cranberry growing state, with 25% of the domestic output coming out of Bay State bogs. It seems like 2025 might have been a tough year for growers there, since the current USDA projections show a 22% decrease in yields (1.75 million barrels) from 2024 levels.
The remaining top cranberry growing states – Oregon and New Jersey – are also down double-digits in projected yields from 2024.
Heading down a cranberry rabbit hole? Read about the Garden State’s Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension, or find out why October is considered Cranberry Month in Massachusetts.