In 2018 the United States produced over 863,400,000 million pounds of cranberries.
Below is a 16-year trend of total us cranberry production by year. The data from 2003 – to 2018 is realized production data as reported by the USDA. The production data is measured in barrels, which weigh 100 pounds per barrel. Total output has fallen over the past two years after hitting a high in 2016 at 9,627,400 million barrels.
How many pure cranberry bottles could we produce?
- Each bottle of ocean spray pure cranberry contains the juice from 900 cranberries.
- There are approximately 440 cranberries in 1 pound
- So that’s 2.05 pounds of cranberries in every ocean spray pure bottle
- Therefore with the total US crop in 2017, we could make 442,444,444 million bottles of pure cranberry juice!
What’s the price of cranberries?
Below is a 20-year trend of the price per barrel of cranberries. From a $65.90 high in 1996 to a low of $17.20 in 1999, cranberries averaged $39.93 dollars during the 20-year time period. The average price for the trailing 5 years is $31.02. Data for 2018 hasn’t been published by the USDA as of Jan 10th, 2019.
This isn’t what you’re paying for fresh cranberries in the food store. A barrel is 100 lbs of cranberries.