Blossom is gone, bees are leaving soon, and fruit is setting fast. Now we need to keep these warm days and nights and hope we […]

As of today we are about 50% in blossom at the station and with great weather in the forecast hopefully setting fruit by the weekend. […]

Well it’s been a cold last couple of weeks with not a lot of plant movement. What a difference from last year when I was […]

After the cultivars present in each bed at the newly-dedicated Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station were fingerprinted and named (see CCMJ 35.2), Dr. Zalapa’s lab was […]

Cultivar contamination—whether by sport seeds that germinated from an unharvested berry, or by impure cuttings used for propagation when a bed was planted—prevents cranberry growers […]

As the middle of May approaches and our March winds still pounding the region it feels a lot like April yet. The plants are starting […]

Juan Zalapa and his team are proud of the diversity they’ve been able to plant at the Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station. In three years of […]

Another weekend of heavy rain, but no washouts this time. Getting equipment ready for harvest, and will hopefully be picking fruit by the 20th of […]

We have gotten 6+ inches of rain in the last week at the station. The berries are putting on size and the flea beetles are […]

The warm sunny days have really sized the fruit here at the station. I was fortunate enough to not get all the heavy rain a […]