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 […]

The Wisconsin Cranberry Research Station hosts tours for the media, public servants, local school groups as well as in-bed research conducted by UW-Madison staff and […]

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 […]

It feels weird to say we are approaching May 1st as the daytime temps struggle to reach 50 degrees most days. All of our irrigation […]

Vines are starting to turn purple as harvest is fast approaching. Planning on starting harvest on the hybrids the week of September 27th.