Cranberries At 200: Market Changes, Drought Create A Crisis

By BOB SALSBERG, Associated Press: Business
Mon, 09/26/2016 - 10:52pm

ROCHESTER, Mass. (AP) -- All is not well in cranberry country this harvesting season, the 200th anniversary of the world's first known commercial cultivation....

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