. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. WHAT OF THE FUTURE OF THE NEW JERSEY CRANBERRY INDUSTRY? A Visit to that State Indicates Production is now stabilizing at around 85,000 barrels and may expand slightly. By Clarence J. Hall less acreage. New Jersey production in 1959 per acre was barrels of cranberries. In 1958 it was In 1959 New Jersey harvested a total of 2,800 acres. In 1958 a total of This is obviously .1 While production in the statej which once led the industry has declined until it is now in third place generally, next to Massachu- setts and
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. WHAT OF THE FUTURE OF THE NEW JERSEY CRANBERRY INDUSTRY? A Visit to that State Indicates Production is now stabilizing at around 85,000 barrels and may expand slightly. By Clarence J. Hall less acreage. New Jersey production in 1959 per acre was barrels of cranberries. In 1958 it was In 1959 New Jersey harvested a total of 2,800 acres. In 1958 a total of This is obviously .1 While production in the statej which once led the industry has declined until it is now in third place generally, next to Massachu- setts and Wisconsin, it appears prospects are increasing. Or at least New Jersey seems to be stablizing, with prospects of some increase, without much prosipect of substantial decrease, although, of course this depends mostly upon near-future marketing, as it does in every cranberry-growing area. This fact seems to be revealed by a brief, revisit to New Jersey and talks with a number of New Jei-sey growers. They do not appear to be discouraged. As is well known, the cultiva- tion of the highbush blueberry has cut into cranberry production, as one factor. Today many cran- berry growers also grow blues. Some who once only grew cran- berries now --iroduce the latter as a sideline to cranberry cultivation. Some have gone entirely to blue- berry production. Bogs have been ripped out in many instances and the acreage diverted to blueberry culture. Not p11 cranberry grow- ers, however, have gone into cul- tivated blueberries at all, and remain as cranberry growers, while others are still predomin- antly cranberry growers. Last yerr. lOoD, Nev/ Jersey produced 9".^00 barrels of cran- berries. In 1P58, The crop seems to b^ r-tabilizing at 85,000 to 90,000 barrels. "We might dro-i to 75,000 barrels in some years," said one authcrative speaker. "Or in a good year we might go up to 110,; Some new cranberry acreage is being planted on virgin land, per- haps notab
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