On February 14, 1981, Hugo Schaeffer, vice president of operations at the National Cranberry Cooperative (NCC), called his assistant, Mel O’Brien, into his office and said: Mel, I spent all day yesterday reviewing last fall’s process fruit operations at receiving plant #1 [RP1] with Will Walliston, the superintendent, and talking with the co-op members [growers] in that area. It’s obvious to me that we haven’t solved our problems at that plant, yet. Even though we spent $100,000 last winter for a fifth Kiwanee dumper at RP1, our overtime costs were still out of control this fall, and the growers are still upset that their trucks and drivers had to spend so much time waiting to unload process fruit into the receiving plant.
I can’t blame them for being upset. They are the owners of this cooperative, and they resent having to lease trucks and hire drivers to get the berries out of the field and then watch them stand idle, waiting to unload.
Walliston thinks that the way to avoid these problems next fall is to buy and install two new dryers [$40,000 each], and to convert our dry berry holding bins so that they can be used to store either water-harvested or dry berries [$7,500 per bin]. I want you to go out there and take a hard look at that operation and find out what we need to do to improve operations before the 1981 crop comes in. We’re going to have to move quickly if we are going to order new dryers, since the equipment and installation lead times are in excess of six months.
By the way, the growers in that region indicated that they plan on about the same size crop this year as last. But it looks like the percentage of water-harvested berries this year will increase to 70% of total process fruit from last year’s 58%.
NCC and the Cranberry Industry
NCC was an organization formed and owned by growers of cranberries to process and market their berries. In recent years 99% of all sales of cranberries were made by the various cooperatives active in the cranberry industry. NCC was one of the larger cooperatives and had operations in all the principal growing areas of North America: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. Table A contains industry data for U.S. production and sales of cranberries.
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