Cooperative Extension: Cranberries

Grower Services

Cranberry questions? Contact Charles Armstrong, Cranberry Professional. University of Maine Cooperative Extension || Pest Management Office || 491 College Avenue || Orono, ME 04473-1295 || Tel: 207.581.2967 [email: charles.armstrong@maine.edu]

Image Description: An outline of the State of Maine, filled in with a picture of Maine cranberries (clicking it sends the user to UMaine Extension's Cranberry Home Page)

Image Description: Link to find out "what's new?" that growers may wish to know about.

Image Description: Check out the free site called Maine Ag Trader where you can buy, sell, swap, and trade agricultural equipment

Image Description: Link to our Cranberry Insects section

Image Description: Link to our Cranberry Weeds section

Image Description: Link to our Cranberry Diseases section

Image Description: Link to the Maine Cranberry Integrated Pest Management Guide

Image Description: Pest reports or updates that are posted during the growing season - button is red and the text changes to Pest ALERT when there is a very important pest situation taking place.

Image Description: Link to Degree Day Values (those of significance to Maine cranberries)

Image Description: Link to our Maine cranberry management calendar

Image Description: Link to a page about a cranberry abnormality referred to as Umbrella Bloom

Image Description: Link to a page about a cranberry nutritional imbalance known as Yellow Vine

Image Description: Link to a listing of cranberry Spring and Fall frost tolerances

Image Description: Link to a page providing real-time local weather conditions for various towns in Maine

Image Description: Link to a page showing Maine annual cranberry harvest figures

Image Description: Link to our page that presents and summarizes some cranberry research findings from Maine and elsewhere, at http://extension.umaine.edu/cranberries/cranberry-research/

Image Description: Link to a page that helps to explain the percent out-of-bloom calculation as it relates to cranberry fruitworm management, at http://extension.umaine.edu/cranberries/calculating-out-of-bloom/

Image Description: Link to erosion control guidelines for cranberry cultivation in Maine

Image Description: Link to a page of common nutrition and fertilizer questions and answers pertaining to cranberries

Image Description: Link to information about cranberry tissue testing

Image Description: Link to a listing of cranberry workshops and meetings (mostly those in Maine)

Image Description: A button for linking to other sites of interest to cranberry growers, at http://extension.umaine.edu/cranberries/grower-services/links-to-other-sites/

Image Description: Link to an online form to share management steps you've taken on your own beds (intended primarily for Maine growers)

Image Description: Link to the online Maine cranberry harvest survey (to be used only by Maine cranberry growers)