By the 1940s the cranberry harvest was the largest in the world, and today it is still a major business in town.

Even so, dry-harvested cranberries are expected to be 8 to 10 percent of the total cranberry harvest, up from an average of 4 to 6 percent, he said.

As the cranberry harvest draws to a close here in southeastern Massachusetts, workers send a strange menagerie of machinery across the bogs.

"I even like the way it smells," he added, alluding to the scent of the cranberry harvest.

White believed that such cultivation would be a profitable second crop, one occurring a month before the cranberry harvest.

The Bandon Cranberry Festival is celebrated every fall as the cranberry harvest begins.

The proposed alignment ran through land where much of the state's cranberry harvest was located, and this led to lengthy lawsuits and delays.

In particular, farmers were concerned that salt runoff from winter ice removal would harm cranberry harvests.

Pepsi had offered the co-op $100 million, an assumption of debt and fixed prices for cranberry harvests.

This will be my first cranberry harvest.