<p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/cranberry-prices-falling-cropped.jpg" alt="Images 051513" /></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>A saturated cranberry market is dragging prices down at a time when many growers have recently made big investments in their bogs.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">This poses an especially challenging hurdle for growers who don’t belong to large cooperatives who sell to large manufacturers like Ocean Spray. They’re getting $22 to $28 per 100 pounds for their fall crop, said Tom Lochner, Executive Director of the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association. It costs them $25 to $30 per 100 pounds to grow, according to the Jackson County Chronicle.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Producers in Monroe and Jackson counties account for more than a third of the state’s cranberry production, which leads the nation.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Growers who belong to a cooperative that belongs to Ocean Spray are projected to get $61 a barrel - more than three times as much as his independent grower peers.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">An influx of Canadian berries into the market has triggered the latest price drop. A relatively new player, the country’s harvest was much greater than was expected, Lochner said. Canada barely had any production 15 years ago; their bogs now are the second largest regional producers in the world.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://lacrossetribune.com/jacksoncochronicle/news/local/cranberry-prices-squeezing-area-growers/article_e6e9144c-bd9b-11e2-808c-0019bb2963f4.html" target="_new">Cranberry Report</a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
