How Ocean Spray Farmers Harvest Billions of Cranberries 

For real dude

Minecraft players use a cranberry farming strategy more like lol

I think your right. lol

Thats what i thought!

Apart from this has been the method for 60 years apparently.. can tell you minecraft aint 60

Night Vale vibe

like hell they are

Bog spiders

@@sek6167 best pest control ever

@@sek6167 they’re an incredibly important part of the cranberry bog!

​@@TheJoker-dj4yqspider hate will not be tolerated

@@ez_lacr0ix141I’ll rip a wolf spider in front of you, just did

@@TheJoker-dj4yq bruh you want bug infested cranberries instead?

​@@TheJoker-dj4yqtakes one to know one

Thank you for informing me that I will never visit a cranberry field.

I bet your mom was happy with free berries.

@@alanh1406 She made GREAT cranberry bread all winter but my Nonna was the one that made 100 different things with them. And since I live right next door to Plymouth, our Thanksgiving meals had cranberry sauce, cranberry stuffing, cranberry bread, cranberry desserts, cranberry preserves. One year we tried to make cranberry juice, but you need A LOT of sugar to cut the tartness.

@@63brennanare you in Carver per chance? Wasn’t expecting to find anyone else here who grew up in cranberry country

@@brahminsoup Actually Wareham. I'm right off rt 6 just before the Marion line

@@brahminsoupI’m another one 😉but so many agave gone to houses😬

they show it on the cranberry juice

@@bluekriptek100 I thought that was just a design.

@@bluekriptek100 they show it on the cranberry juice in your country, assuming that you even drink cranberry juice, and ive only seen cranberry juice in store one time

​@@Joshinkenmissing out. that taste so good! esp the jelly. I could eat it everyday for the rest of my life.

@@untitled-gv3qp lmfao

I've heard this to. The guys running the belts get covered.

😬😰

Oh nahhhh

You made me go happy to sad in lightspeed thanks

First thing I thought lol

Yeah I could watch this all day

Nope they’re totally legit! I grew up right between Plymouth and Carver county aka ‘Cranberry Country’ and it’s as real as it gets

You must be one of those dorks that go through the mental gymnastics to explain huge plot holes in their favorite media......

Ur right they did use huge props

And also drastically reduced the number of jobs this process provided. 👍

@@andrewstephens2687awwww poor baby

@@andrewstephens2687don’t be all doom and gloom lmao

@@andrewstephens2687 I don’t see you begging to go work in the cranberry fields.

U mean bush? Lol

But doesnt the water damage it?

@@sipstea9546no of course not they drain it afterwards.

​@@arturjogi2667no; cranberries grow on vines

​@@sipstea9546no, like they said the waters only there for 3 days

I've heard this too... spiders everywhere!

I did it one year, didn't see too many but there were a few, mostly wolf spiders.

😂 fun time is when your using the giant yellow booms they stand out a lot on it. Thousands and thousands.

Always thought this looked fun. I'm literally nauseous rn. Extremely arachnophobic.

@@jen30551 it's fun, I used to work for badger state fruit processing in pittsville wi. Some years if they don't have enough people they will ask. Production to help with harvest. It fun :) I really enjoyed the guys I worked with. Ended up going active duty. So that kinda throw things for a loop. It's fun tell the cold sets in and you have to break ice. knee deep in water. Fun fact harvest normally doesn't happen it starts to get colder. As it helps ripen the fruit. If you harvest while it's still warm you will get too many whites. What are just used for juice. But is normally used with a bunch of red's otherwise the color will go down. Say you got 40,000 lbs of berry's to get a color that's acceptable you have to use like 2-5 thousand lbs of whites and the rest for red fruit. Even then it's normally not done but it's better then wasting the fruit.

LOL I loved that commercial growing up

No! but you add natural flavors- WTH!

Bruh

Who wouldn't, tbf.

Poor guys (and gals)

Like any other insect would?

@@youdidwhat7530 spider aren’t insect

Yep! Some fields use wolf spiders to keep away pests! Very efficient lil hunters indeed!

Thank you for this glorious nightmare material.

@@LateToSocialMedia the spiders don't tend to bite the workers since they're too focused on surviving the flood to actually bite, but it is still a possibility, many workers I cranberry farms actually consider the spiders as coworkers :)

​@@abilaidamiguelSpiders don't bite unless they feel threatened and even then they don't want to bite because it will probably cause you to smash them which they do understand that's why they generally try to avoid people. So there's really no worry with wolf spiders crawling onto you to avoid drowning, they don't want to bite you there's no reason for it, animals don't like to waste energy because that could kill them running out of energy just like us.

@@dsprocks yes I know, jumping spiders are the same way, they don't bite unless their life is in danger. I've worked with spiders before

Yeah. Anybody standing in that water is going to be a insect noahs ark.

That just made me do a little shake

It's actually really fun doing this but I totally get what you're saying. I had a friend in northern WI that had a family cranberry farm. We got to help him harvest a couple times and it was an EXPERIENCE. I remember how tough it was more than I remember the insects. 🤭 but best believe there were plenty. 🥴

​@@maggiebeltaa5421 lol gotta love our bugs here 😆, wisconsin is horrible with em 💀

@@uninterestedcat8429 You are not lying. 🤭🤭

Also that one single blurred out worker was suspicious.

I miss Dirty Jobs.

​@@oo0OAO0oo probably didn't consent to being on video, so they censored him rather than scrap the footage.

If I recall correctly the reason it was on dirty jobs is because the harvesters get covered in spiders. When they flood the fields all the spiders hang onto the cranberries that float on the water

@@justinthompson7404 OH YEAH I REMEMBER NOOOOW, that episode scared the crap out of me as a kid because every single man was totally covered in spiders

Murica tends to be backwards in most ways

Its america so they decided to do it the hard way

​@@jakefromstatefarm4771 So true, it's painful. 😂

Hahaha that would require all of the trailers to be equipped with dump capabilities, and considering the age of those trucks it’s probably way cheaper and efficient to just build a big ass platform to lift the whole truck and trailer. I’m not a cranberry farmer, just guessing.

Well cross off career in cranberry picking. 🕷️🚫

Does it have to be WOLF 🕷🕷🕷??! 😟😬 But I don't know which kind would be better 😕

It's not a fact, it's a myth farmers tell the new guys to mess with them since the harvest crew is seasonal and is almost always new people.

I've work in the Massachusetts cranberry bogs, you do see thousands of spiders (mama spiders with hundreds of babies on her back) and snakes, turtles, deer poop, dead mouses and birds, will touch/crawl on you lol. It is a fact

@Kay I worked on cranberry farms in Wisconsin for 15 years, there are only tiny spiders the size of grains of sand, and no cranberry marsh intentionally puts spiders out.

What is it now?

@@paulpaul4681 it's just all just bushes, weeds, trees. It's sad as it looks like it never existed.

​​@@tracyperez2341 if it's any consolation; bushes, weeds and trees are better for wildlife and ecosystems in general than any single plant field.

​@@ImBuanananot for humans.

@@joeyotremba113 what ?

with almonds they use tree shakers,drops the almonds quickly, but shortens tree life

Onions are bought up from like 1 ft under the soil and put thru a slat conveyor and all the dirt drops back thru it. Brings up rocks and you have a separate container for those. My dad done it as a kid. It's like a potato machine but I think they didn't have to pick them up individually.

​@@diviningrod2671 they use the same machine on olive trees.

Ahh yes. Flooding a field and using a vacuum to suck everything up, never sorting it once. What an incredible amount of work and not something just ANYBODY could do 😂

@@qQ-lh8cf Just say you have no idea how cold that water is and how hard it is to move around in it while dragging farming equipment and go

Love cranberry juice, hate cranberry sauce. This is really interesting!

Because they left out the spider part lol

It's literally "ocean spray" advertisement By the way - #f%ckoceanspray

Yeah they also lied about it being beneficial for the urinary tract. That was a lie to sell more.

I don't know if they still do, but Ocean Spray did have ads showing workers harvesting cranberries at one point.

​@@johnbernasco3772 People really did believe cranberries helped with UTIs because they do temporarily relieve the symptoms (I can personally attest to this, lol). They were used as a treatment for centuries until relatively recent, large studies proved they don't actually cure or prevent UTIs.

Yea...its amazing how it helped to spread no goods and all kinds of riff raff

Thats all big brands, they wanna make above a 100% profit while they don't care if the supplier even makes some.

The goal of the company is to make as much money as possible, and it's not as if they have a monopoly on cranberries, since you said the farmer found plenty of others who would buy them for better prices. And since they don't absolutely need that farmer's cranberries, it makes perfect sense for them to be patient and get the best price possible. It's the free market, and the same system that allow them to pay under market price, is the same system that allows you to buy super cheap products at historically low prices.

@@sergiv5613 Serge... WHERE.T.F. are you finding these HISTORICALLY LOW PRICES...????????? Your response makes absolutely no sense. I'm guessing your in marketing for a very large corporation. Nobody else would say the things you did.

@@Duschbag No I'm not in marketing, I just have an appreciation for the free market. And yes, prices are historically low. 100 years ago, people worked their whole life to buy a house and feed their family. Nowadays, we have food and product shipped all over the world. We can get mangos from Mexico in the middle of winter for just a buck or two. You know how expensive, if it was even possible, it would be to get a mango at that time back then? Just 25 years ago, a computer that could barely run a calculator cost months of wages, nowadays you can buy a super powerful PC for extremely low, you can buy a 60 inch tv for 500 bucks or less. Back then, average people didn't have extra money to go to restaurants, go on vacations, or spend 100 bucks a month on various subscriptions. Do you know what made your current lifestyle possible? Capitalism and the free market. Ocean spray has done more good and brought much more wealth and prosperity to the world than you ever will. We are living in an amazingly prosperous time. I'm assuming since you are using internet and a phone you live in a developed country, and you have probably never once in your life experienced hunger (I mean real hunger). So ye, products are way cheaper and more accessible than they have ever been in the history of the world.

Best statement i have heard all day!!!

Thank you farmers,I use the cranberry (English use of jelly-that stuff that is wobbly) in with the stingy amount of fruit pies,that in England seem to be 4 parts pastry and 1 part fruit.So many thanks.

They are grateful for your money

Can you tell me why they need to do it super fast?

My mom made a cranberry chutney/relish. It was incredible. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water. I'm so glad we have that and a bunch of her other recipes.

That's wonderful that you're keeping a family tradition alive

Easy to make. I won't eat canned cranberry jelly anymore.

Try the blueberry infused craisins. Delicious. I'll never go back to regular 😄

@DommyBoy Smith I'll check it out lol Mice to meet a fellow based craisin enjoyer

It's the sugar they add to them.

My friend Heather worked there! She refuses to come down from her "Cranberries are Evil" opinion throne! But goes back for the $$ almost every season 😆

I stay away from jobs who force that crap.

@@Eddi3xBac0n Which is why Justin will never get or have anything in life.

@@Automedon2 How's that leather taste? -_-

@@tresdj Yeah, people come from all over and just crash in their cars/cheap lodgings, and make bank before they head home. It's def miserable, but lucrative for sure. Hahaha. (It's not the cranberries, it's the companies lol)

That sounds cool :) where did you live?

If cranberry raisins are called craisans then why aren’t normal raisins called graisans

and a damn good snack while you work:)

@@joeyotremba113 oh God they're so dry and tart though. I was super thirsty once and decided to chew on one, and that was the only time I did that. Wasn't as juicy as I was anticipating.

I'm 48 and thought they grew on trees lol. I don't even know why I thought that...

IQ 20? xD

Me too, same age, guess it's never to late to learn something new.

I grew up in MA and thought they grew in water for the longest time. I only learned maybe 10 years ago that they flood the fields- I’m 45

They grow in the Netherlands too. We have two natural fields. One on Vlieland and one on Terschelling.

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And I love you 💘 . . . . just kidding, but have a wonderful day, nonetheless 😄

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​@@depressedwatermelon411 This is why we can't have nice things.

Shut up

Only prerequisite is u must not be arachnophobic

​@@brandonmmorris was about to say... I hope you like wolf spiders.

@@brandonmmorris I crawled under homes to do termite work for almost 15 years. They don’t bother me. My wife wouldn’t last 3 seconds though. Lol.

​@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 mmm cranberry glazed bacon

I've got one on my desk right now!... Idk how old it is....

😂😂 💯

The holidays are almost here. Cranberries sell like crazy

Is it significantly more bugs than you would have encountered from travelling through the fields unflooded?

@@davidy22 the issue is spiders and since it's the south you get a mass variety such as black/brown widows, and wolf spiders. And your a moving land mass of freedom, so your the main attraction to get away from the water... Also the amount of ticks too...