How Ocean Spray Harvests Two Billion Cranberries Every Year - Dan Does

On this episode of ‘Dan Does,’ host Daniel Geneen heads to New England to visit Keith Mann’s cranberry farm to learn about the tricks and gear behind Ocean Spray’s harvesting operation.
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Credits:
Host/Producer: Daniel Geneen
Directors: Daniel Geneen, Murilo Ferreira
Camera: Murilo Ferreira, Connor Reid
Editor: Christian Moreno
Executive Producer: Stephen Pelletteri
Development Producer: Ian Stroud
Supervising Producer: Stefania Orrù
Associate Producer: Julia Hess
Audience Development: Terri Ciccone, Frances Dumlao, Avery Dalal
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[@tburrrg2502]

The cool thing about ocean spray is they are a coop owned by the farmers. When they got their website redesigned a few years back the farmers in the coop all had to approve of it :)

[@zulfika_]

coop = lite version of cartel. Lol.

[@avishjha4030]

@@zulfika_ better than a capitalist company.

[@jjm6187]

The bad thing about ocean spray, is they bully the market

[@LetsgoBrandon2023]

@@avishjha4030 reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee capitalism bad

[@m1dos391]

@@zulfika_ without the violence

[@stephiek.3267]

So cool to learn this. I love to eat Ocean Spray whole berry cranberry sauce year round. I just get a craving for it! Chilled in the fridge, straight from the can, yum. It's not only for Thanksgiving. Bless these farmers for their hard work and a bountiful harvest.

[@tony98discovery]

Have you ever drank cranberry juice?

[@jonrutherig6300]

The perfect food is the best prevention which is better then a cure...or an Vaccine...God didn't provide vaccines should tell us everything....my vaccines grow from the land

[@stefthorman8548]

@@tony98discovery yea, it's good

[@LeahBeah173]

Omg my husband is the same way. When we do eat it, we have to get 1 extra can because he’ll eat it straight out of the can 😂

[@katsuma1805]

Ocean spray has the best cranberry products out there

[@CT-vm4gf]

We’re so lucky that people decide to run businesses like this so we have a variety of food to eat.

[@jffry890]

Elementary school field trips are nonstop during harvest season. Great fun.

[@MikeySkywalker]

I never knew Ocean Spray was owned by the farmers. I will go buy some right now.

[@muffinman3052]

I was expecting a drab informational like how it's made but this was expectedly chaotic and full of personality

[@timmanus]

Most of them are grown in Wisconsin! We also use tractors and other equipment so there’s less manual work.

[@livinglifeleona]

Im glad I watched this. I grew up seeing commercials of the cranberries in water and really thought they were aquatic plants. 😂

[@potatomatop9326]

They took playing Harvest Moon to the next level.

[@tony98discovery]

Have you ever been to a cranberry farm?

[@bbsara0146]

this seems like the most chill business

[@ethanjavage8181]

Ocean Spray is so cool, this makes me happy :)

[@Slurpified]

Haha I always wondered if those pools of water, that they stand in, were real like in the commercials.

[@tony98discovery]

I can even learn to swim in lakes that aren't full of cranberries haha

[@takotokibeefs]

Grew up in the south shore, used to love bog walks and skating on the ice as a kid.

[@tony98discovery]

Are the cranberry fields near you large?

[@popculturedon]

I am glad they mentioned Wisconsin. :-) We actually have 3 Ocean Spray Processing Plants here. :-)

[@heatherschroeder6532]

And a murderer who worked for one. Wisconsin 🖕 Ocean Spray 🖕🖕🖕

[@popculturedon]

@@heatherschroeder6532 What does that have to do with absolutely anything?

[@heatherschroeder6532]

@@popculturedon it's an ocean spray video...Ocean spray employs alcoholic murderers in Wisconsin...I said what I said. That's what it has to do with Ocean Spray. You can read my original comment... 🙄🖕 The end...have a nice day

[@RandomManIncorperated]

​@@heatherschroeder6532A Company In Not Responsible For One Guy Off The Clock

[@peg9773]

Thanks, all! Fun article and super informative

[@allycatspreparedlife5313]

You’re making me homesick. I left Massachusetts in “82”

[@jasonludwig215]

I used to play in the cranberry bog behind a place called outdoor world in Massachusetts seeing this brings back memories 😁

[@jamesbaconreid]

I love Dan Does videos! This was really cool to see :) thanks

[@richardnedbalek1968]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It’s not Thanksgiving without cranberries! 😋

[@tony98discovery]

Great to see how they harvest billions of cranberries

[@williamelewis464]

Lol you should talk about the giant spiders that inhabit the bogs and how they climb up anything to escape the water, including the big workers. Didn’t believe it until I saw a video, those workers don’t make enough.

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.

[@ninjaahjumma]

All I know about cranberry harvesting is wolf spiders. Lots and lots of wolf spiders.

[@TTex11]

As someone who lives with a person who is absolutely addicted to Ocean Spray cranberry juice....this was actually kinda interesting.

[@sarah_farm]

I hope you will continue to show us your traditional cooking. It’s better than watching all those world famous chefs . Also your traditional attire and lifestyle are so wholesome , healthy and peaceful. It’s very soothing watching your videos . And it's an honor to have you visit our channel, we can discuss more about our experiences in harvesting and building farms.

[@CotaLax3o3]

I watch a video similar to this every holiday season. Still just as cool.

[@pamduran2753]

Thankyou for such a delicious item in many ways grew up knowing ocen spray.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

This video is going viral for sure

[@rinfal3337]

Thank you for the cranberries, we love them.

[@dorindafulton]

I love all the ocean spray flavors 😋🤩😋😋😋. I drink them every day. Thank you 😊🤗🥰

[@Momma-_-Dew]

This is so good to watch cuz I literally guzzle down three liter bottles of Ocean spray cranberry juices

[@oreally8605]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Good food and good times Thank you Lord!

[@giuliani3570]

crazy how the field looks empty, then boom. That is a crazy amount of cranberry's in that little area.

[@m1dos391]

Dan’s a good reporter. Carrying this channel

[@janemurdock6988]

Thank you! I always wondered how it all happened.

[@jwuonog]

I've been in that bog! Very cool

[@Hibramarta]

Thanks for sharing the experience

[@andresjacobo7335]

I just started watching this not knowing I had a bottle of ocean spray right next to me … crazy how coincidences always happen in word ways JAJAJJAA

[@loveforthe90s]

I’m drinking them right now!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@XXSQUIDGLEYXX]

I like how they didn't mention the spiders

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.

[@MLD.Ltd.]

Me: here for the Processing (canning) Video: 98% harvesting

[@skmuzammilzeeshan6173]

😂

[@LuigiL75]

All I Know is that Ocean Spray's Can-Grape Juice tastes like THE ELIXER OF GOD!!! So good...

[@fandompriest]

Damn that dude aged well , cranberries probably have good anti aging benefits

[@jennyng2994]

Yes! But I would say that most cranberries consumed today is accompanied by tons of sugar, thus offsetting any health benefits.

[@crabnebula1816]

@@jennyng2994+1 (insert health benefit), +1 diabetes

[@MaxMckayful]

Being an owner is a health benefit for sure

[@amirlecter8318]

Where is Part II of this?

[@bernhardcdavid4062]

Thank you Ocean Spray, Your Cranberry Juice 😋 is part of My daily diet.. A No. 1 Product, Go Well, Keith and the Team, Your Product is 1st Class....

[@brendanbush2174]

Then you learn about how the spiders all float with the cranberries when you flood the bog and they all climb to the tallest thing around... you

[@harrisonhall8966]

Great big cranberry toilet bowl!

[@icecreamMONSTER23]

do you know how much sugar they add

[@TheFn414]

Should have went to Wisco

[@boardcertifiable]

3:10 Hank Hill approves

[@didibolter9362]

Washington state also has an Ocean Spray plant.

[@MikeySkywalker]

That looks like Duxbury or Kingston. My cousins lived there.

[@redbarchetta8782]

Awesome.

[@edwinhsugiono]

How much sugar is really added because the ad says they don't but I know they do

[@deliamak]

How do you deal with pests?

[@ogueyratogeyrat7448]

kill em

[@BrazaPaintballer]

I'm pretty sure I watched the same exact video last year...

[@chankwanting]

They're not the first channel to produce a video on this topic.

[@orellaminx3530]

3:13 Last thing you want is springing a gasoline leak in the middle of your bog. Propane just turns to a gas, no contamination of the soil or water.

[@keithmann5107]

Exactly right! Neither soil, water, nor fruit!!!

[@willhudson5687]

Now that's how you power-game fall Y2 in Stardew Valley.

[@metrinstoefta1490]

so the plants grow in the dry field and then it is flooded under 2 feet of water. people & machines stomp all over the submerged plants to harvest the floating berries...eventually the water drains. how do the plants survive this and doTHEY produce the next years berries?

[@Genny-Zee]

Love hearing the Boston accents…mmmm

[@jasonantes6015]

Living in tomah wi I learned a lot about these

[@aPurpleNurple]

this is so cool!

[@naanviolence8260]

Frozen cranberries are great in smoothies.

[@jerijayz3929]

Approved

[@ctcanine]

I love cranberries 😊

[@glass1258]

Is that Middleborough Massachusetts ??

[@Mrbink01]

Come to Wisconsin and see a real marsh...

[@dspsblyuth]

The cheese bogs of Wisconsin?

[@Mrbink01]

@@dspsblyuth funny...more cranberries are produced in WI than anywhere in the world.

[@jamesclees6439]

i lived by the factory in bandon oregon

[@frostydacoolkid4393]

Bro boutta save up for the community center for the vault bundle💀💀💀

[@peezy304]

where are the wolf spiders ? lol

[@TheGhostHAG]

Shoutout my wisco boys

[@typicalrockhound9887]

All those berries .... But the bottles they sell barely contain juice 😄 .

[@typicalrockhound9887]

Corp greed 🖕

[@tony98discovery]

*Is Wisconsin home to the most blueberry years in the country?*

[@jimbobcramden]

Why do they flood the dry field to harvest them

[@jillianpoirier7888]

I live down the street I work for ocean spray

[@barrypoontang]

So cool new trend is to copy each others top youtube food channels destination trips, is there more places than the same 3 places you foodies go?

[@anthonyrodriguez7912]

Do spiders try to climb you while harvesting?

[@kelseysparrow]

Came here looking for spider references.

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.

[@loroco75]

I sell bermudas too

[@matthewdar886285]

Too cool

[@shaneintegra]

9:05 Its so cringe when a news person or whatever he is acts like they cant just help or its such a burden. Dude knows he needs to pull it to a certain spot...

[@retrio2264]

I have seen this video years ago What da hell re-up?

[@cardbored_]

You guys should create your own show. Sons of Cranarchy

[@davidshamiri1448]

The tires dont squish the cranberries?

[@avacadomangobanana2588]

They never get under the tires the machine literally dislodges them and then they FLOAT

[@nealdunleavy8267]

I like you Sir Dude

[@MikeySkywalker]

Wisconsin must be pissed New England got the credit. They produce like 60% of all cranberries.

[@Emilstekcor]

Cool

[@HoustonWadeCompton]

where are all the wolf spiders?

[@gabbyhernandez3478]

Good

[@whosashleyg]

I came here for the wolf spiders

[@StopWars420]

Don't forget ocean spray wrote to food regulators because they didn't want to label added sugars because without them cranberries are inedible.

[@SkinnedBanana]

Where's all the spiders crawling all over them haha

[@9cirno_]

they are really small

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.

[@ganksteris4924]

Holy jezus

[@roqua]

1:30 Explain this "sand" process better.

[@The_Muthias]

Bogman here by adding layers of sand over time helps keep the beds solid and also helps the vine focus energy on growing berries as opposed to more vegitative growth. There have been opposition groups protesting sand removal for use. I wish more people would research more

[@roqua]

@@The_Muthias I would have been OK with a multi-paragraph response with a bit more detail, but I appreciate the answer. I assume the protest groups you speak of don't want sand taken from somewhere else and transported to the bogs for use in this vine-covering process?

[@DrVonNostrand]

You feel your walls hwhat now 😳

[@Kitty-we6il]

ah cranberries, days spent agonising over a uti only to realise i needed cranberry juice to help me through it without antibiotics, oof

[@flazay_da]

these guys are covered in wolf spiders

[@user-hm1lv5de1y]

The secret is diluting pure cranberry juice with apple juice so as to appease corperate

[@sammiepittman3130]

I could make a meal out of Ocean spray cranberry sauce 🥴

[@fbksfrank4]

Were are the spiders crawling on them?

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.

[@Art10up]

worse thing in that is spider. :3

[@oc2667]

Where wolf spiders?

[@vadimnimarov8796]

bro its a myth these farmers have been telling their new farm hands to freak them out.......its an old mans tale.