Cranberry K-nowledge

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Teacher - Raise your hand if you can tell me which US state produces the most cranberries.
Me - Ooh, ooh, me, me! New Jersey!
Teacher - Sorry, that’s incorrect. Can you name another state?
Me - Ummm. I give up.

This is the only season when fresh cranberries are readily available in the stores. Did you ever stop to think where they come from? When a friend brought me back a gift of cranberry confections from Oregon today, I exclaimed, “Who Knew!” I’m certain I would have known that cranberries grow in Oregon if I had grown up in the Northwest. Gawd, I hate failing tests.

Oregon’s not at the top of the list, though. Wisconsin blows everyone out of the water.

NASS 2006 forcasted cranberry production in barrels.

1. Wisconsin -3,750,000
   
2. Massachusetts - 1,750,000
   
3. New Jersey - 490,000
   
4. Oregon - 485,000
   
5. Washington - 160,000
   

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