Cranberry crops are harvested by flooding the plts they grow in, then beating the bushes they grow on until the ripe fruit falls off into the water. The fruit flows with the water and collects in large open water areas where they are strained out of the water.
Before planting a new cranberry bed, the land is leveled with laser guided equipment to provide optimum water management. Dikes are constructed around the edges of individual beds to allow for flooding. Drainage ditches and canals are also constructed to allow for efficient water management. In older plantings (some are 100 years old and still in production) the beds follow the contours of the land.
they flood the land and the ripe ones float up
The fact that cranberries float on water. At harvest time, the farmer floods the bog, beats the shrubs to loosen the berries, then simply pumps the floating berries into a waiting truck.
The fact that cranberries float on water. At harvest time, the farmer floods the bog, beats the shrubs to loosen the berries, then simply pumps the floating berries into a waiting truck.
cranberries can't be harvest because they will just get rotten and you will get ill.
They are grown on bushes but are flooded for easier harvest.
Contrary to popular belief, cranberries do not grow in water. They are grown on sandy bogs. Because cranberries float, some bogs are flooded when the fruit is ready for harvesting.
Cranberries have to bounce 4 inches to be used.
Cornelius Lott Shear has written: 'Spoilage of cranberries after harvest' -- subject(s): Cranberries, Diseases and pests
The harvest moon hepls farmers by telling them the time to harvest. It tells them farming season is over and winter is coming.
With there hands
Farmers harvest produced because if the plant is left it will go to seed and the produced value will be, very much, reduced.
Cranberries are flooded just before they harvest them. The berries being bright red in color float on the water and they use a small boat type barge and load them into it. From the boat, they place them into a semi and take them to a processing plant.