How Ocean Spray Harvests 220 Billion Cranberries A Year
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- Ocean Spray Cranberry farms are a part of a large cooperative established in 1933 that includes the US, Canada, and Chile. Many of the farms are fourth generation and greater family farms. Each year, Ocean Spray facilities produce about 88 million cans of cranberry sauce and 223 million bottles of juice
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Narrator: Come Thanksgiving, cranberries hit tables across the US. Usually in sauce form. But these pink super fruits have a long journey before they ever make it to your holiday plate. Odds are your cranberries started here in New England, on an Ocean Spray farm.
Allison Carr: Hi, I'm Alison Carr and I am a 6th generation cranberry farmer here in Massachusetts, and you are on my family farm.
Narrator: Headquartered in Lakeville, Massachusetts, Ocean Spray harvests 220 billion cranberries a year. Cranberries are primarily harvested in the water.
Kellyanne Dignan: Despite what people think, they don't grow in water all year.
Narrator: Cranberries begin as vines in wetland fields called a bog. In June, small pink flowers bloom. It's said the flowers look like a crane, giving the berry its name. Around late June the flowers fall off, and the actual cranberry starts to grow. Harvesting happens between September and October, when the bogs are filled with a couple inches of water. A berry-picking machine drives into the bog, and churns up the vines to knock the berries off. Because cranberries have four air pockets inside, they float to the surface of the water.
Allison Carr: We try to use Mother Nature as much as we can, and the wind. And in a lot of cases, the cranberries will be pushed to one area of the bog and that's the area that we use to take the cranberries off.
Narrator: A couple more inches of water are added to the bog And this is where you've probably seen images of farmers thigh-deep in cranberry water. Dressed in waders, farmers maneuver what's called a boom to corral the berries into one corner of the bog. They then rake all the berries into vacuums that suck them up into the backs of trucks. The trucks are sent off to the Ocean Spray processing plants where they're unloaded. Those berries can become one of 1,000 different products. Ranging from juices, to dried cranberries, to of course, cranberry sauce. Each year, Ocean Spray facilities produce about 88 million cans of cranberry sauce, and 223 million bottles of juice! Their products are sold in stores across a hundred different countries. But how do small, family-owned farms in Massachusetts help produce almost 65% of all cranberries sold? That's because they're a part of the Ocean Spray agricultural cooperative. Started in 1933, today 700 family farms across the US, Canada and Chile, collectively own the Ocean Spray brand.
Dignan: The average farm in the cooperative, is just 18 acres. These are small family farms, typically multi-generations. In fact more than a quarter of our farms are in their fourth generation or greater.
Narrator: Under the cooperative, the family farms see 100% of the profits from Ocean Spray product sales. Dignan: Cooperatives support farmers because ultimately farmers are able to capture a lot more value for their crops. So the value we add through manufacturing and marketing and that blue Ocean Spray brand, all of that's going back to the farm rather than going to a middle-man or a CPG company. Narrator: So you can go back to your cranberry-sauce-turkey-dunking, knowing you've supported a co-op six generations in the making.
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How Ocean Spray Harvests 220 Billion Cranberries A Year
*I really want to swim around in those cranberries*
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Actually didn't expect Ocean Spray to be such a decent company... I've come to expect big brands to have low standards and want to eliminate family run farms in place for their own mass system... but they do the opposite, they support families and give them quite a bit of the profit from the products. Color me impressed.
I’ve been at a cranberry festival at an Ocean Spray farm, and I got to walk around in the bogs. Just wanna say, being thigh-deep in cranberries is amazing!
The cranberry grape juice is the best thing I ever tasted
Too bad it isn’t grape juice in it
What is it 0.o
is this how they make sprite cranberry?
they add carbon dioxide and some fart gas xD
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Who’s here after that fleet Mac skateboarding video 😂
Reminds me of their classic 2000s ads, I missing seeing them!
I had no idea that ocean spray was part of a coop owned by family farms! This is amazing!
Makes me appreciate you all even more. Thank you for all you do!! 🦃❤️
How did they train those cranberries to float
They use my dad’s belt.
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Whats a woosh are they cranberries
@@owenschell9964 yes
They’re actually grapes that undergone surgery
Something tells me those hot blondes aren’t actually the ones harvesting the cranberries
Girls mostly just pose for the camera, they rarely make the camera or take the picture.
Bruce Wayne how many farm owners actually do the lowest job?
Yes, like limpbizquick me said, its most likely an immigrant worker.
@@Amateur_Pianist_472 considering they said the average size is just 18 acres I would say quite a few, its when you get bigger and bigger that you need more labor and the oner takes on a more of a manager role
220m bottle of juice and 88m cans of sauce per year. If they make atleast $1 per bottle of these... They're multi millionaires. You think they'd go down there? Or drive Ferraris and live in luxury mansions?
I can't believe this is how they farm so many cranberries!
my new vacation spot
Wisconsin also has their fair share of Ocean Spray farmers. Love ocean spray!
The way she says *_YOU ARE ON MY FAMILY FARM_* is just so threatening 0:21
I loved Ocean Spray before, I am lovin' it ever more now.
0:00 oh my God she's lagging
This is awesome, cooperatives are the best
Sure they are.
0:16 she sounds like she's telling you to get off her land
Fleetwood Mac, Skateboarding, And Ocean SprayCranberry Juicing...
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I didn't know this was how Cranberries were grown and harvested, very interesting. Thanks.
Me encanta , gracias por elaborar tan delicioso producto, y gracias por compartir
Is this an ad? Everything seems so orchestrated.
This is actually pretty interesting, good vid✌😁
This looks like fun, but I know from general work experience that its not as fun as it looks! And water can be very tedious!
"Manual labour isn't fun" - Ray Ray coming in with the hot takes.
This is such an amazing and BEAUTIFUL video!! I vividly remember going for a brisk walk and after helping an old lady walk the street i went to the local park and found a random bike chained up to a weeping willow. I promptly sniffed that bicycle seat for 7 hours and 38 minutes. Thank you soooo much. I have fulfilled my wildest dreams while listening to the sounds of this video blasting on my phone.
Sorry what?
Watching this and eating dried cranberries, its literal candy
i am a teacher and this vidio helped a lot for a cranberry experamint
Awesome! Can sauce is good but homemade is even better!
I have fallen in love with that farmer lady.
@Goofen even better
Representing my hometown!!
Nice to learn how they grow.
I froze Ocean Spray fresh cranberries last November. I boiled them in March 2024. I used the juice from boiling water with OJ to mix with orange juice, honey and mint. A delicious taste. I used the pulp on a meatloaf and it was delicious. This year I will frozen more Ocean Spray fresh cranberries in their container. They last fresh a long time, and it was the best meatloaf ever.
She had me at 6th-generation cranberry farmer. 😍
Love ocean spray diet.
Best juice ever!!!!
We need more videos like this in the world! ;)
Guy riding the skateboard? 🛹
Cranberry juice is a lovely beverage on very hot days
Good job Ocean Spray 👍
Ocean Spray: Contains only 15% juice...
i know your comment is 2 years old but get the 100% juice ones those are the only ones i get because no added sugars still alot of sugar but it comes from the fruit not added
@@wosh253 Already buying another brand that is 100%
Cool! Thanks
I'm addicted to cranberry sauce I eat it by itself and so good
watching this while snacking Ocean Spray's blueberry flavoured cranberries!
THE WORKERS LOOK SO HAPPY ,ITS NOT JUST CRANBERRY THEY GROWING
Amazing.
*Congrats to 1 Million Subscribers* 😍😆
THEY FLOAT!
Who else sat here with a box of ocean spray cranberry juice
im sure those two good looking ladies spend all of their day doing labor and keep that level of happiness
Have good time withe your business
I LOVE CRANBERRIES!
I love cranberry juice
They deserve it, all of their products are freaking delicious
Thank you for Cran-Grape 🔥🔥🔥
I love Ocean Spray
Interesting!
I live 2 towns over from lakeville. I feel special
If I had a lifetime supply of cranberry juice I would be a very happy man
Fleetwood Mac- Dreams
currently drinking cranberry juice while watching this
Cleaning systems since 1930 thank you ocean Spray
Cool
AYEEEEEE Lakeville Massachusetts is being recognized for once.
Cool !
those ladies in the water are staged af.
Nah dude, women do manual labor all the time!
We need more cooperatives in the world
Skateboarding homie bring my here
Does it really cure UTIs ,how does it's mechanism work to treat severe UTI....my mom suffered from UTI several times ,but she never tried cranberry juice or its by products...... I'm not even sure whether I would suggest her to try this.
I highly doubt these blonde, photogenic women are the ones harvesting cranberries each year...
MJ yep lol
Probably are. Look at her face, her skin is weathered from being outside. She lives there so she probably does something. No one really gets away with not working on a farm.
gus and eddy would love this video
i live on Cape cod MA and cranberries are the best
1:00 Drag slicks??
Diy_Guy ?
Diy_Guy nice
Top 10 Awesome The wheels lol
Ha, good catch.
It can run the quarter mile in less than 7 secs LOL
*Sprite Cranberry*
Ethan Gailushas ThE AnSwEr Is ClEaR
I want some cranberry juice right now all of a sudden
When I saw the commercials I thought that the bog was a fictional marketing technique.
Love cranberry
I lived nearby. That is how it goes. These coop farmers own farmland in places such as Carver, Wareham , Rochester , Lakeville, Marion , Middleborough, Plymouth , all in MA and other portion in Wisconsin.. And some Citrus growers in Florida.
The Cranberry patches or bogs are sulked beneath the ground level, so at the harvest time they are filled with the water. The harvest machines beat the vines and release the fruit. Once the entire harvest is floating , then it gets pulled and moved to a suction machine. All of it on the water.
And yes, the blondes might as well be their own farmers , I would not be that surprised. Some of these farmers actually do participate in the harvest themselves.
If you come to think of it, cranberry harvesting dates back to the days of Pilgrims , this one of the staple foods they survived once they landed in Plymouth Bay. The story goes half of the Mayflower colonizers , who survived the brutal winter , where then thought by Massasoit Tribes people to harvest Cranberries and hunt for Turkey, so they they could made through the brutal winter.
As a gesture of gratitude , the following fall , these survivors then invited the tribespeople for a large banquet. Hence these foods are a symbolic and big part of the Thanksgiving tradition that carries through these days.
My brother worked as intern for Ocean Spray Plant in over 20 years ago. And yes, these farmers own collectively the Ocean Spray processing company.
In the old days it was back breaking work on damp conditions. I recall having met an elderly polish woman who harvested in the fields and was filled with arthritis.
At once Pepsi did a co distribution deal with Ocean Spray. Whatever intentions they had to buy Ocean Spray , they were flatly refused by the growers association as they have a say on what goes in the Company.
Shenanigans at the Executive Suite are frowned upon , one’s career can be cut short once it is found out. Otherwise a great place to work for.
One of the questions they ask new hires during harvest season is "Are you okay with getting covered in spiders?"
Interesting.
Now I want to imagine that there are game of thrones styled clans fighting for cranberry dominance.
Nathan "The Cranberry chugging skateboarder" bought me here..
Im here for skateboard pelon 😎😂😂
never knew cranberry had such wide market
There's something aesthetic about watching them walk through the cranberries...
There's something aesthetic about watching you pose for a selfie 😘
@@mikeolithory898 lol what?
I'm drinking Ocean Spray Cran-Grape right now
Cooperatives are a superior solution to quotas and subsidies. Further, in cases where the comparative advantage lies outside borders, free trade should dictate supply.
Yes, the only problem is only few knew this solution. Most of farmers compete each other and die after big agri-companies steps in.
I think it’s awesome that harvesting cranberries can be so easy. Could we do the same with, Blueberries?
Wow 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Cranberry juice is too sweet for me but my mom loves it.
Cranberry juice is nice
I want to have a great weekend for my birthday party tomorrow night
I had a Tesco ad for cranberries
I don't know about you but this video really makes me thirst for a Sprite Cranberry.
This makes me wanna ride a skateboard and lip sync to a Fleetwood Mac song
I'm watching this while drinking a cranberry drink .
When I pass by the Cranberry farm I see at least 29 blondes working during harvest season.
Wisconsin is the #1 producer of cranberries in the US.
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