Feeding the cranberries

The cranberries have reached the stage where they are growing very fast and need all the energy they can get. Here we show how we fertilize the crop with the least amount of damage. If we were to drive equipment over the vines it would not be good. Adding fertilizer to the irrigation would not insure an even spread and there would be pooling of too much in one area and not enough in another. So far, this expensive method proves to be the best.

Click the button below to watch the helicopter.

The helicopter sets the hopper on the ground, a bag of fertilizer is loaded into the hopper and away it goes. In 4 min. it will be back for another.



This is a field map of the cranberry fields.


Bog 4 and 5 are coming on line for the first time this year.

Bog 6 should have a small crop next year.

Bog 7 was planted this spring and it will be 3 years before its first small crop.

MAL will be changed from a regular field this winter into a cranberry field. It costs about $40,000 / acre to convert a field into cranberries.








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