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PHOTO GALLERY: American Cranberry Farmers on the Front Line of Climate Change




Cranberries are sorted for weight in a sifter before being sent to a truck at Mann Farms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2022. Cranberry farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Their crop, the cranberries, fruits which are part of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, require just the right amounts of heat and cold to prosper, but with climate change bringing unpredictability they are having to use different techniques as they go to combat it. AFP

Cranberries pour out of a sorter and into a truck at Spring Rain Farm in Taunton, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2022. Cranberry farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Their crop, the cranberries, fruits which are part of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, require just the right amounts of heat and cold to prosper, but with climate change bringing unpredictability they are having to use different techniques as they go to combat it. AFP

Farm workers push floating cranberries to a pump to be sucked up and sent to a truck, after being rinsed, at Spring Rain Farm in Taunton, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2022. Cranberry farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Their crop, the cranberries, fruits which are part of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, require just the right amounts of heat and cold to prosper, but with climate change bringing unpredictability they are having to use different techniques as they go to combat it. AFP

A worker uses a cranberry boom in a flooded bog to coral floating cranberries to a pump as they are harvested at Mann Farms in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, on October 9, 2022. Cranberry farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Their crop, the cranberries, fruits which are part of the traditional Thanksgiving meal, require just the right amounts of heat and cold to prosper, but with climate change bringing unpredictability they are having to use different techniques as they go to combat it. AFP