As temperatures cool, cranberries darken up. Color and total anthocyanin content (TAcy) increase together, and both TAcy and color contribute to the active market for […]

Mother Nature wasn’t afraid to let us know that harvest is here! Chilly nights and cool mornings already. Here at Gardner’s we are starting harvest […]

On August 28, the research station received 6.8″ of rain over a 10 hour period. Once again, I find myself ditching and fixing washouts. Hopefully […]

Hello, Wisconsin Cranberry Growers and Industry Members! Leslie Holland here—your new extension fruit pathologist! I wanted to make an official introduction as I start up […]

Things are starting to cool down around here and with cooler nights comes everybody’s favorite thing to do in the fall…frost watch!. Although the recent rain […]

Pollinator plantings can certainly add both natural beauty and valuable wildlife habitat on or near the cranberry marsh, but occasionally unwanted species can begin to […]

It’s that time again—when our dynamic, responsive cranberry plants are finally doing the same thing for an entire month. Throughout the growing season, cranberries are […]

Over the last two growing seasons, we have worked diligently to develop hundreds of new cranberry research plots at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station in […]

This year’s new plantings really took off with the great weather we had. Hopefully we get another 5 weeks of good growing conditions.

Early and accurate yield estimation is very useful information for growers to adapt management decisions and inputs (i.e., fertilizer, herbicides, fungicides, etc) based on potential […]