Our cranberries are sourced from the world's top growing regions and meet the highest food safety qualifications.
Wisconsin, USA
In the United States, Wisconsin is the largest producer of cranberries, harvesting over 60 percent of the United States' total crop. Cranberries are Wisconsin's official state fruit and is the state's leading fruit crop, both in volume and economic value. Cranberries are grown mainly in the state's northern regions where a combination of weather and soil create the ideal conditions for this delectable fruit. Wisconsin has unique sandy soil conditions, left over from the receding continental ice sheet of the last Ice Age. These conditions help to grow some of the world's best sweet and dried cranberries. Cranberries are grown on low running vines in sandy bogs. To harvest the berry, the cranberry bogs are flooded with water. Since cranberries have a small pocket of air, once the bogs are flooded, the berries float to the surface to be picked by harvesting equipment. The cranberry harvest happens from late September through October.
Popular Products: Sliced or Whole Sweetened Dried Cranberries (SDCs), 50 Brix & 65 Brix Concentrate. Packing: Cranberries are typically packed in 25 lb (11.34 kg) cases and shipped in 20' (25,000 lb) or 40' (40,000 lb) FCLs.
Massachusetts, USA
In the United States, Massachusetts, like Wisconsin, has the ideal conditions of temperature and unique sandy soil conditions left over from the receding continental ice sheet of the last Ice Age. Massachusetts unique kettle ponds are the perfect environment for the cranberry's vines to grow. Massachusetts has grown cranberries for over 200 years, with possibly the most famous location, Nantucket, known worldwide for producing the signature Nantucket Red fabric coloring from cranberry pigments. Approximately 30% of Massachusetts total cranberry production is sold into the global export markets.
Popular Products: Conventional & Organic Sliced or Whole Sweetened Dried Cranberries (SDCs), 50 Brix & 65 Brix Concentrate.
Packing: Cranberries are typically packed in 25 lb (11.34 kg) cases and shipped in 20' (25,000 lb) or 40' (40,000 lb) FCLs.
Quebec, Canada
In Canada, cranberries are grown mostly in the province of Quebec, which is responsible for approximately 90% of Canada's total production. Quebec is the world's largest producer of Organic cranberries and has some of the world's best conditions for growing organic cranberries due to the limited need for fertilizers and a lack of ravaging pests due to climatic conditions, like especially cold winters. Quebec's cranberry bogs are the northern terminus for North American cranberry production. The region also benefits from the conditions created by the receding continental ice sheet of the last Ice Age. Quebec's cranberry bogs have helped propel Canada to the world's second largest producing country behind the USA.
Popular Products: Organic & Conventional Sliced or Whole Sweetened Dried Cranberries (SDCs).
Packing: Cranberries are typically packed in 25 lb (11.34 kg) cases and shipped in 20' (25,000 lb) or 40' (40,000 lb) FCLs.
Chile
Chile is a relative newcomer to the cranberry scene with 2 main producers making up the lion-share of the market. A few years ago, these producers were independent. Now, Ocean Spray (OS) has moved into Chile and bought the production for both Sweetened Dried Cranberries (SDC) and the production facilities for concentrate from Cran Chile. By including the two main Chile cranberry producers in the Ocean Spray coop, OS has cornered the South American cranberry market. Their business decision to own this market has provided Ocean Spray with the ability to ship cranberries to Europe without any of the Tariffs charged on US produced product. With China now putting Tariffs on US origin cranberries, OS is further able to leverage this investment in the Chilean cranberry market.
Popular Products: Only Ocean Spray's representatives sell these Cranberries