How Ocean Spray Farmers Harvest Billions of Cranberries
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2022
- On this episode of ‘Dan Does,’ host Daniel Geneen heads to New England to visit Keith Mann’s cranberry farm to learn about the tricks and gear behind Ocean Spray’s harvesting operation.
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Credits:
Host/Producer: Daniel Geneen
Directors: Daniel Geneen, Murilo Ferreira
Camera: Murilo Ferreira, Connor Reid
Editor: Christian Moreno
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Development Producer: Ian Stroud
Supervising Producer: Stefania Orrù
Associate Producer: Julia Hess
Audience Development: Terri Ciccone, Frances Dumlao, Avery Dalal
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This is Minecraft farming strategy
For real dude
Minecraft players use a cranberry farming strategy more like lol
I think your right. lol
Thats what i thought!
Apart from this has been the method for 60 years apparently.. can tell you minecraft aint 60
remember kids, those wolf spiders aren't pests, they're your fellow employees
Night Vale vibe
like hell they are
Bog spiders
@@sek6167 best pest control ever
@@sek6167 they’re an incredibly important part of the cranberry bog!
Also! Cranberry farmers tend to utilize wolf spiders to keep insects off and out of the fruit, and when you flood the field they want to find the tallest structure they can find to get away from the water. So when you go walking in the flooded field to scoop out the berries, they climb up you as the tallest thing in the water. If you work at a cranberry field you gotta be really ok with spiders, bc they are basically your coworkers lol
@@TheJoker-dj4yqspider hate will not be tolerated
@@ez_lacr0ix141I’ll rip a wolf spider in front of you, just did
@@TheJoker-dj4yq bruh you want bug infested cranberries instead?
@@TheJoker-dj4yqtakes one to know one
Thank you for informing me that I will never visit a cranberry field.
I live on a bog in Massachusetts. As a kid, my friends and I would grab nets and grab whatever berries got left behind. usually a zip lock bag or two each. Lots of cranberry bread, muffins, and sauce for the winter
I bet your mom was happy with free berries.
@@alanh1406 She made GREAT cranberry bread all winter but my Nonna was the one that made 100 different things with them. And since I live right next door to Plymouth, our Thanksgiving meals had cranberry sauce, cranberry stuffing, cranberry bread, cranberry desserts, cranberry preserves. One year we tried to make cranberry juice, but you need A LOT of sugar to cut the tartness.
@@63brennanare you in Carver per chance? Wasn’t expecting to find anyone else here who grew up in cranberry country
@@brahminsoup Actually Wareham. I'm right off rt 6 just before the Marion line
@@brahminsoupI’m another one 😉but so many agave gone to houses😬
All the spiders in that field will rush to get to the highest point, aka you
I've heard this to. The guys running the belts get covered.
😬😰
Oh nahhhh
You made me go happy to sad in lightspeed thanks
First thing I thought lol
“A lot of people don’t realize cranberries don’t grow in water”
Me, who didn’t realize cranberries were harvested using water at all:
they show it on the cranberry juice
@@bluekriptek100 I thought that was just a design.
@@bluekriptek100 they show it on the cranberry juice in your country, assuming that you even drink cranberry juice, and ive only seen cranberry juice in store one time
@@Joshinkenmissing out. that taste so good! esp the jelly. I could eat it everyday for the rest of my life.
@@untitled-gv3qp lmfao
Whoever came up with that harvesting process, huge props.
Ur right they did use huge props
And also drastically reduced the number of jobs this process provided. 👍
@@andrewstephens2687awwww poor baby
@@andrewstephens2687don’t be all doom and gloom lmao
@@andrewstephens2687 I don’t see you begging to go work in the cranberry fields.
Not gonna lie, I just thought the commercials for Ocean Spray had them in cranberries on floating water as an aesthetic thing to go with their brand name having Ocean, I didn't know they actually harvested them like this
Yeah I could watch this all day
Nope they’re totally legit! I grew up right between Plymouth and Carver county aka ‘Cranberry Country’ and it’s as real as it gets
You must be one of those dorks that go through the mental gymnastics to explain huge plot holes in their favorite media......
Since cranberries can grow on the same vine over and over again (as long as it's not damaged), some of the cranberry vines in Massachusetts are over 150 years old!
U mean bush? Lol
But doesnt the water damage it?
@@sipstea9546no of course not they drain it afterwards.
@@arturjogi2667no; cranberries grow on vines
@@sipstea9546no, like they said the waters only there for 3 days
If you want this job, just make sure you aren’t scared of spiders :D
I've heard this too... spiders everywhere!
I did it one year, didn't see too many but there were a few, mostly wolf spiders.
😂 fun time is when your using the giant yellow booms they stand out a lot on it. Thousands and thousands.
Always thought this looked fun. I'm literally nauseous rn. Extremely arachnophobic.
@@jen30551 it's fun, I used to work for badger state fruit processing in pittsville wi. Some years if they don't have enough people they will ask. Production to help with harvest. It fun :) I really enjoyed the guys I worked with. Ended up going active duty. So that kinda throw things for a loop. It's fun tell the cold sets in and you have to break ice. knee deep in water. Fun fact harvest normally doesn't happen it starts to get colder. As it helps ripen the fruit. If you harvest while it's still warm you will get too many whites. What are just used for juice. But is normally used with a bunch of red's otherwise the color will go down. Say you got 40,000 lbs of berry's to get a color that's acceptable you have to use like 2-5 thousand lbs of whites and the rest for red fruit. Even then it's normally not done but it's better then wasting the fruit.
"here at ocean spray we don't add any sugar" "you just added sugar!" "Oh"
LOL I loved that commercial growing up
No! but you add natural flavors- WTH!
I really appreciate farmers, thank you for always keeping us fed
Also during this time it's highly likely that the farmers get covered in spiders who climb to any high point they can find to escape drowning
Bruh
Who wouldn't, tbf.
Poor guys (and gals)
Like any other insect would?
@@youdidwhat7530 spider aren’t insect
Mm I can feel the spiders crawling on me just from watching it
Yeah. Anybody standing in that water is going to be a insect noahs ark.
That just made me do a little shake
It's actually really fun doing this but I totally get what you're saying. I had a friend in northern WI that had a family cranberry farm. We got to help him harvest a couple times and it was an EXPERIENCE. I remember how tough it was more than I remember the insects. 🤭 but best believe there were plenty. 🥴
@@maggiebeltaa5421 lol gotta love our bugs here 😆, wisconsin is horrible with em 💀
@@uninterestedcat8429 You are not lying. 🤭🤭
Speedrun cranberries harvesting world record any%
"They tilt the trucks" - never seen this before, usually its the bed of the truck that tilts!
Murica tends to be backwards in most ways
Its america so they decided to do it the hard way
@@jakefromstatefarm4771 So true, it's painful. 😂
Hahaha that would require all of the trailers to be equipped with dump capabilities, and considering the age of those trucks it’s probably way cheaper and efficient to just build a big ass platform to lift the whole truck and trailer. I’m not a cranberry farmer, just guessing.
I heard that there are spiders that live on the plants that float when the fields are flooded. Then, so that they don't drown, they hop onto the workers as they pass by. Sometimes you end up covered in spiders.
Yep! Some fields use wolf spiders to keep away pests! Very efficient lil hunters indeed!
Thank you for this glorious nightmare material.
@@LateToSocialMedia the spiders don't tend to bite the workers since they're too focused on surviving the flood to actually bite, but it is still a possibility, many workers I cranberry farms actually consider the spiders as coworkers :)
@@abilaidamiguelSpiders don't bite unless they feel threatened and even then they don't want to bite because it will probably cause you to smash them which they do understand that's why they generally try to avoid people.
So there's really no worry with wolf spiders crawling onto you to avoid drowning, they don't want to bite you there's no reason for it, animals don't like to waste energy because that could kill them running out of energy just like us.
@@dsprocks yes I know, jumping spiders are the same way, they don't bite unless their life is in danger. I've worked with spiders before
I was ready to come to the comments to mention how they left out the part where wolf spiders frantically crawl on you to escape the water. But clearly, I'm not the only one who learned that nightmarish fact.
Well cross off career in cranberry picking. 🕷️🚫
Does it have to be WOLF 🕷🕷🕷??! 😟😬
But I don't know which kind would be better 😕
It's not a fact, it's a myth farmers tell the new guys to mess with them since the harvest crew is seasonal and is almost always new people.
I've work in the Massachusetts cranberry bogs, you do see thousands of spiders (mama spiders with hundreds of babies on her back) and snakes, turtles, deer poop, dead mouses and birds, will touch/crawl on you lol. It is a fact
@Kay I worked on cranberry farms in Wisconsin for 15 years, there are only tiny spiders the size of grains of sand, and no cranberry marsh intentionally puts spiders out.
Idk why they don't make ads about this, it's pretty cool, entertaining and you get to know more
Because they left out the spider part lol
It's literally "ocean spray" advertisement
By the way - #f%ckoceanspray
Yeah they also lied about it being beneficial for the urinary tract.
That was a lie to sell more.
I don't know if they still do, but Ocean Spray did have ads showing workers harvesting cranberries at one point.
@@johnbernasco3772 People really did believe cranberries helped with UTIs because they do temporarily relieve the symptoms (I can personally attest to this, lol). They were used as a treatment for centuries until relatively recent, large studies proved they don't actually cure or prevent UTIs.
This is amazing! Big thank you to our farmers! Your work is appreciated.
This brought back memories of an episode of "Dirty Jobs". I was wondering how I knew what was going on.
Also that one single blurred out worker was suspicious.
I miss Dirty Jobs.
@@oo0OAO0oo probably didn't consent to being on video, so they censored him rather than scrap the footage.
If I recall correctly the reason it was on dirty jobs is because the harvesters get covered in spiders. When they flood the fields all the spiders hang onto the cranberries that float on the water
@@justinthompson7404 OH YEAH I REMEMBER NOOOOW, that episode scared the crap out of me as a kid because every single man was totally covered in spiders
So many people don’t realize what farmers big and small have to do to get you onions to almonds to your table the amount of work from field to truck to store to your cupboard. God bless these guys i love my cranberry sauce with turkey and without them i would have it!
with almonds they use tree shakers,drops the almonds quickly, but shortens tree life
Onions are bought up from like 1 ft under the soil and put thru a slat conveyor and all the dirt drops back thru it. Brings up rocks and you have a separate container for those. My dad done it as a kid. It's like a potato machine but I think they didn't have to pick them up individually.
@@diviningrod2671 they use the same machine on olive trees.
Ahh yes. Flooding a field and using a vacuum to suck everything up, never sorting it once. What an incredible amount of work and not something just ANYBODY could do 😂
@@qQ-lh8cf Just say you have no idea how cold that water is and how hard it is to move around in it while dragging farming equipment and go
Yes, Massachusetts, my home!!!
Love these cranberries!
God bless,
Lynne🍃💜✝️💜🍃
It's wild how "Are you afraid of spiders?" Is probably an interview question for this job.
There used to be an Ocean Spray cranberry field about 2 hrs from me. It was fun watching them harvest the fruit. The field has been gone for many years.
What is it now?
@@paulpaul4681 it's just all just bushes, weeds, trees. It's sad as it looks like it never existed.
@@tracyperez2341 if it's any consolation; bushes, weeds and trees are better for wildlife and ecosystems in general than any single plant field.
@@ImBuanananot for humans.
@@joeyotremba113 what ?
I knew a Cranberry Farmer in Wisconsin. He quit selling his harvest to Ocean Spray because they refused to pay Market Value Prices... He found plenty of other buyers that did... Ocean Spray is the Walmart of the Food Industry. Piss on both of them...
Thats all big brands, they wanna make above a 100% profit while they don't care if the supplier even makes some.
The goal of the company is to make as much money as possible, and it's not as if they have a monopoly on cranberries, since you said the farmer found plenty of others who would buy them for better prices. And since they don't absolutely need that farmer's cranberries, it makes perfect sense for them to be patient and get the best price possible. It's the free market, and the same system that allow them to pay under market price, is the same system that allows you to buy super cheap products at historically low prices.
@@sergiv5613 Serge... WHERE.T.F. are you finding these HISTORICALLY LOW PRICES...????????? Your response makes absolutely no sense. I'm guessing your in marketing for a very large corporation. Nobody else would say the things you did.
@@Duschbag No I'm not in marketing, I just have an appreciation for the free market. And yes, prices are historically low. 100 years ago, people worked their whole life to buy a house and feed their family. Nowadays, we have food and product shipped all over the world. We can get mangos from Mexico in the middle of winter for just a buck or two. You know how expensive, if it was even possible, it would be to get a mango at that time back then? Just 25 years ago, a computer that could barely run a calculator cost months of wages, nowadays you can buy a super powerful PC for extremely low, you can buy a 60 inch tv for 500 bucks or less. Back then, average people didn't have extra money to go to restaurants, go on vacations, or spend 100 bucks a month on various subscriptions. Do you know what made your current lifestyle possible? Capitalism and the free market. Ocean spray has done more good and brought much more wealth and prosperity to the world than you ever will. We are living in an amazingly prosperous time. I'm assuming since you are using internet and a phone you live in a developed country, and you have probably never once in your life experienced hunger (I mean real hunger). So ye, products are way cheaper and more accessible than they have ever been in the history of the world.
Best statement i have heard all day!!!
Bass pro shops in foxborough ma. Has a small cranberry bog that was donated by ocean spray. They used to harvest the cranberries and just dump them off into the woods. I stumbled across this giant pile of cranberries one year and had more than enough to make home-made cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving that year! 😊
I grew up there, my dad worked at that plant during harvest season at night after teaching all day, pretty cool watching the process as a kid
It's amazing the machinery that they create to do this kind of work👍🏼👍🏼
Yea...its amazing how it helped to spread no goods and all kinds of riff raff
cranberry fest was one of my favorite memories as a child in ontario Canada
Love cranberry juice, hate cranberry sauce. This is really interesting!
The cranberry sauce is going to be sitting in the back of my cabinet for a few years.
I've got one on my desk right now!... Idk how old it is....
I worked at E & J Gallo Winery for 7 years here in Fresno, CA during crush season which is only Aug-Nov. I worked the 10p-7:30a shift when all the grapes come in to get crushed to make wine & juice. It's an amazing process just like the Cranberries.
I am so thankful for the farmers and harvesters !
Thank you farmers,I use the cranberry (English use of jelly-that stuff that is wobbly) in with the stingy amount of fruit pies,that in England seem to be 4 parts pastry and 1 part fruit.So many thanks.
They are grateful for your money
Craisins are one of my favorite school breakfast snacks. Thank you guys for providing that. I'd do more to thank you if I knew how, but I just hope you see this for now. Craisins have made many of my mornings go from "just kill me already" to "I'm ready for the day! Rise and shine folks!". Thank you.
Try the blueberry infused craisins. Delicious. I'll never go back to regular 😄
@DommyBoy Smith I'll check it out lol
Mice to meet a fellow based craisin enjoyer
It's the sugar they add to them.
The process of producing cranberries is beautifully clever. I wish all kinds of crop harvests were this efficient.
I always pay respect to farmers. Thank you for providing good food
As a Mass resident, Cranberry Harvest Season is basically a holiday. If you have the time you can pick up a job for a few days harvesting
I love cranberries. My grandma made a special fresh cranberry relish every Christmas. She’s been gone for 15 years, but I was able to look at several dozen recipes and piece together how my grandma made hers. Turned out great!!! We have a new old Christmas tradition.
My mom made a cranberry chutney/relish. It was incredible. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. I'm so glad we have that and a bunch of her other recipes.
That's wonderful that you're keeping a family tradition alive
Easy to make. I won't eat canned cranberry jelly anymore.
Mass resident here, absolutely love passing these bogs on the highway during harvest season. So cool.
I knew that harvesting cranberries included flooding the fields, but this was fascinating. Would love to see a documentary on the history and tech used.
I remember working at the Carver processing plant. Man, I don't miss those 12hr/7day workweeks, but, the overtime was insane.
My friend Heather worked there! She refuses to come down from her "Cranberries are Evil" opinion throne! But goes back for the $$ almost every season 😆
I stay away from jobs who force that crap.
@@Eddi3xBac0n Which is why Justin will never get or have anything in life.
@@Automedon2 How's that leather taste? -_-
@@tresdj Yeah, people come from all over and just crash in their cars/cheap lodgings, and make bank before they head home. It's def miserable, but lucrative for sure. Hahaha. (It's not the cranberries, it's the companies lol)
All this time I thought they grew in water! I’m 68! 😳 Never too old to learn. 👍✌️
I'm 48 and thought they grew on trees lol. I don't even know why I thought that...
IQ 20? xD
Me too, same age, guess it's never to late to learn something new.
I grew up in MA and thought they grew in water for the longest time. I only learned maybe 10 years ago that they flood the fields- I’m 45
I love little videos like this, yummy little pockets of info that make my mind happy =)
I feel like over the years we’ve seen so many commercials we already knew how it worked. Lol great video.
I love driving by the bogs in the morning how the fog covers the top of the cranberries
That sounds cool :) where did you live?
Thank you for providing us with this wonderful fruit. We your customers are truly blessed to have cranberries.
Thank you for the hard work you put into putting cranberries into our stores.
I like to buy cranberries when they hit the stores and freeze them.
This is amazing!
It is awesome to see how one of the most important parts of Thanksgiving is collected!😊
I worked a bog harvest back in 2014 in Carver, which I'm guessing is where you were. It was dry picking tho, they used different machines that would pick them out, no flooding at all. They get more for the dry ones than they do the wet ones, since wet is what most people do because it's easier. Either way it's hard but fulfilling work, with beautiful scenery.
and a damn good snack while you work:)
@@joeyotremba113 oh God they're so dry and tart though. I was super thirsty once and decided to chew on one, and that was the only time I did that. Wasn't as juicy as I was anticipating.
I do not Jesse cranberries during the holidays with turkey. I also eat cranberry gel whenever I have big chicken whole or pieces. Yum!
I love this extremely inefficient efficient way of harvesting cranberries
Most satisfying looking job ever
I use to live on Cape Cod! A cranberry bog is so beautiful!!
Love, love, love cranberries. Thank all who have a part in bringing them to me.
That’s wild, never would have imagined that’s how they were picked. Looks like fun
Fascinating! Equally fascinating were the comments talking about the spiders that live on the plants and frantically climb onto the farmers when the berries are being harvested in the water. I'll never look at a Cranberry the same way again!
Co-op owners & all their employees create this magic. Need to develop new markets, nutraceuticals, skin care products, etc to keep this industry sustainable!
Every piece of this was new information to me. Very interesting!
If cranberry raisins are called craisans then why aren’t normal raisins called graisans
Honestly this makes the commercials all the better
Had an internship in college in St. Paul, MN working for USDA. Some colleagues took me over to Lake Pepin in Wisconsin and I asked about the cranberry farm I’d saw while over. I was able to see the process up close and was amazed how it’s done. Cranberries have a pocket of air in the middle, so when they are struck from the vine, they float to the top, making it easier to corral them into the drain and truck. Fascinating.
Can you tell me why they need to do it super fast?
I love cranberries, yummy
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Cranberries grow on 10' high bushes in N.B., Canada
They grow in the Netherlands too. We have two natural fields. One on Vlieland and one on Terschelling.
I LOVE Cranberries! Juice, sauce, craisins, cranberries baked in puddings, breads, cakes and fresh in Jello salads. Love 'em!
Always wondered about this thank you
Thank everyone up there. I Love cranberry sauce. That's a Yankee product this Southern boy loves
Before they removed the Sagamore rotary, almost every year, an 18-wheeler carrying cranberries would flip on its side, dumping its load, making the rotary cranberry red. Because the berries hold so much water, it's hard to control the trailer.
Cranberries have also been dry picked for a very long time using a specially designed rake with container attached. The rake fingers on the front comb through the vines and pick the berries. I've seen it done on a farm in WI. Then the berries went through a special screener and got sorted into under ripe, fully ripe and almost ripe. I used to buy them in 25# boxes and always bought the fully ripe. bagged up and frozen without washing, they will last nearly forever and be made into sauce when you want. After they dry picked part of the field then they flooded and picked like the video. You can grow your own if you have somewhat sandy soil No bog needed. 😊
A huges harvest is really great blessing in this country.
Looks interesting. I’d like to help harvest one season just for the experience.
Only prerequisite is u must not be arachnophobic
@@brandonmmorris was about to say... I hope you like wolf spiders.
@@brandonmmorris I crawled under homes to do termite work for almost 15 years. They don’t bother me. My wife wouldn’t last 3 seconds though. Lol.
Seeing the supply chain is so fascinating
It just occurred to me that I've never eaten a fresh cranberry in my life. Never seen fresh cranberries in the produce section. I've only ever had craisins, cranberry juice, and cranberry sauce.
Amazing. God bless our farmers!
Who knew!!!!???? Fascinating...thank you for the info!!!
wow.. that's pretty complicated 😲
Shut up
I proposed to my fiancée in the cranberry bog behind the bass pro shop in Foxborough MA, we've been hiking the trail there for years and it was always our special spot
I saw one down by this vacation cottage I was staying at with my family. The field was recessed, like a stormwater pond. Very interesting to see. Especially with the factory only a few miles away.
Cranberries are the best! You can make anything with them! Mmmm☺️
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 mmm cranberry glazed bacon
I remember someone saying the when they do this and all of the spiders that where on the bushes will crawl all over you since your the only thing above water other than the machine and I'm scared now 😭 idk if it's true but still creepy
I really enjoyed this!🥰
The best part of this is that instead of putting the dump mechanism on the trucks they decided to just tilt the whole truck.
You should mention all the bugs that come up with the water too
Is it significantly more bugs than you would have encountered from travelling through the fields unflooded?
@@davidy22 the issue is spiders and since it's the south you get a mass variety such as black/brown widows, and wolf spiders. And your a moving land mass of freedom, so your the main attraction to get away from the water... Also the amount of ticks too...
When I was a kid I used a cranberry scoop to do it by hand ,,lot of work.
The story of spiders and cranberry harvesting is one of the crazier stories you'll ever hear.
Just a few hours to harvest? Wow, incredible.
enjoying an Ocean Spray Cran-Grape for breakfast
Cranberry harvesting is on my bucket list. I saw it once on a tv show as a kid, and I still think about it whenever a cranberry is seen/mentioned. Long live the dream!
This is one the coolest things I’ve seen!
The tilt platforms for the truck are very neat
Absolutely beautiful.
Amazing 👏🏾
I remember seeing the commercials when I was a kid now I actually get to see what they do
I love how you are not talking about the wolfspiders in the fields they use instead of pestizites that can climb up your body, once the field is flooded
The most impressive part is convincing people to eat cranberries.
😂😂 💯
The holidays are almost here. Cranberries sell like crazy
Wish everybody is paid fairly and nicely
lmfao
This is serious farming, I love it
Always wondered why in the commercials they looked like they were in a huge lake of cranberries ! And now I see it's just that that's how they're picked , by flooding the fields so that they can be collected.
Always wondered how the harvest worked. Pretty cool.
And I just got my Ocean Spray cranberry juice today..that juice travelled all the way here in the Philippines 🇵🇭 👍👍
Berrypickers are gonna love this one
Carver, Massachusetts. I used to take my kids to Edaville Railroad to watch this and then later to ride the RR to watch christmas lights.