On Aug. 25, the cranberry industry expected supplies for the 2010 fresh cranberry crop to be in line with last year's harvest. However, after an Aug. 31 meeting of the Cranberry Marketing Committee in Wisconsin, those numbers have been revised, and supplies are expected to drop 20 percent from last year’s figures, which were approximately 333,000 barrels according to a July report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
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