The price paid for wild blueberries this year has dropped about 40 percent, according to some growers, and blueberry experts are blaming a bumper crop and a poor economy. The drop hit growers such as Mike Bailey of Columbia Falls right in the pocketbook. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
BURBANK, Wash. – Ten years ago, Jim Lott had never even tasted a blueberry, let alone thought about planting the fruit at his southeast Washington farm. Then came reports about the fruit’s health benefits, an onslaught of consumer demand and blueberry-laden products, and research showing… Read More
WASHINGTON – The swishing of hand-held blueberry rakes wielded by dozens of field workers is being replaced by the rumble of tractors across Maine’s wild blueberry fields as growers turn to mechanical harvesters to pick the lucrative crop. A decade ago, about 20 percent of… Read More
Maine’s 2007 wild blueberry harvest is expected to produce a crop that is higher than the industry’s five-year average, but lower than last year’s harvest, according to a federal survey. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the 2007 crop forecast on Tuesday. It is based… Read More