Cranberries
Group Steps Up Its Marketing Efforts with Urban Bogs
Cranberry bogs sprang up out of nowhere in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles last month, and disappeared after a few days. It wasn’t a case of spontaneous generation or some freak cranberry harvest.... more »
Wisconsin Cranberry Crop Expected to Break Record
The forecast for the 2006 cranberry crop is 6.64 million barrels, up 6 percent from 2005 and 7 percent above 2004, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Production is forecast to be up in... more »
Great American Publishing Buys Cranberries Magazine
Great American Publishing, of Sparta, Mich., has purchased Cranberries Magazine. Great American Publishing is a publisher of national trade publications, including The Fruit Growers News, The Vegetable Growers News, Spudman and Fresh Cut.The purchase will... more »
EPA Pulls Plug on Some Guthion Uses
The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to end the use of azinphos-methyl (Guthion, Azinphos-methyl 50WS) on peaches, nectarines, caneberries, cranberries, potatoes, cotton and Southern pine seed.EPA ruled that existing supplies of the insecticide can be... more »