. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 1976 Crop Sets Record 2,377,000 Barrels; Wisconsin Tops All States with 980,000 It's official: the 1976 crop has set an all-time record estimated at 2,377,000 barrels of cranberries. The new high exceeded expecta- tions and is about a 15 per cent increase in production over the 1975 figure of 2,075,100 barrels reported. The USDA's crop reporting ser- vice had projected just under million barrels on August 15 while a poll of the cranberry marketing committee membership at its an- nual meeting in late August had come up with a fi
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. 1976 Crop Sets Record 2,377,000 Barrels; Wisconsin Tops All States with 980,000 It's official: the 1976 crop has set an all-time record estimated at 2,377,000 barrels of cranberries. The new high exceeded expecta- tions and is about a 15 per cent increase in production over the 1975 figure of 2,075,100 barrels reported. The USDA's crop reporting ser- vice had projected just under million barrels on August 15 while a poll of the cranberry marketing committee membership at its an- nual meeting in late August had come up with a figure of 2,252,000 bbls. The market committee's of- ficial estimate was 2,293,000 bbls. Prices were holding at $ and $ per carton of 24 bags. The table adjoining this story shows a breakdown by state of the estimated crop harvests. The jump in crop estimates by the USDA is due to improvement in New Jersey and Wisconsin, which more than offset declines in other states. The New Jersey and Wisconsin figures of 265,000 and 980,000 respectively were records for those states. The Wisconsin crop would be 100,000 bbls. higher than antici- pated. New Jersey was up 10,000. Washington and Oregon were slightly off the estimates. In Massa- chusetts, the report of 950,000 bbls. was about as estimated. A good showing by Howes offset PRODUCTION STATE 1974 : 1975 1976 TOTAL ; UTILIZED TOTAL UTILIZED INO MASS N J OREG WASH WIS u s 2, 2, 1,000 BARRELS USDA Regulatory Advisory Committee Reviewing Fruit, Vegetable Marketing Orders "Where do we go from here with federal marketing orders?" was the main question posed to the Advi- sory Committee on Regulatory Programs meeting at the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) October 20-21, 1976. Committee Chairman Richard L. Feltner, USDA assistant secretary for ma
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