FALL NEWS  
Issue #02                                                                                                                                 October and November 2004
RECEIVING STATIONS

       

The Oregon Harvest Season is half over.  . Although there are still growers picking,
for those growers who have already harvested
their crop, they will be
getting their cranberry beds ready for their winter sleep.

 
HARVEST

 

Oregon growers are
looking to the end of
the 2004 harvest
season.  Equipment will
be cleaned and put
away for the upcoming winter season.....
elevators, fruit pumps, harvesters, trucks, are
all being readied for  another season...2005.

This is truly a family operation...Fathers, Mothers, Brothers,
Sisters, Cousins, Aunts
and Uncles, and Grandchildren are ALL
here to participate in
the yearly event. 
Cranberry harvesting
has been a local job opportunity on the Southern Oregon
Coast since 1885,
when Charles Dexter McFarland planted the
first cranberry bed in
Coos County.

ISSUES

 

There are many issues facing our industry this year.  From state and federal regulations to environmental lawsuits, the cranberry industry,
so far, has weathered
them all.  But at this
time of year, they focus on one thing....
delivering a crop that is not only unique, but
HEALTHY and SAFE!! 
Using environmentally
safe growing practices,
the Oregon growers
are confident that the product they deliver is

the best in the world!

          

Oregon's Red "GOLD"!

 

"DRY HARVESTING" THE OREGON CRANBERRY


 

It's "THAT" time again...Dry-Harvesting Has Begun!!

If you drive down the highway you'll see the growers out in the
cranberry beds with their "dry-harvest pickers", plucking the ripe

red fruit off the vines...loading them in bags or boxes for
shipment to the various receiving stations on the South Coast.
 


Daryl Robison, above, is one of many growers who

delivers fresh fruit.

 

 

 

The dry-harvesting machine loads the fruit into

bags...the grower then transfers the fruit to plastic

totes to deliver to local buyers.
 


Picking Cranberries is a family affair. 

 

 

 

 

"WATER HARVESTING" THE OREGON CRANBERRY

 

 

 
 

Daryl Robison drives his harvester through the water. 

As the front wheel spins, it knocks  the berries off

the vines.

 

 

 

Once the berries are knocked from the vine they float

to the top of the water, where they are corralled,

pushed up and elevator and loaded into waiting trucks.

 

 

The berries are then delivered to local handlers/buyers.