Maine’s recent wild blueberry harvest has nearly doubled last year’s volume, as ample rain revived production to more normal levels after frost and dry weather ruined crops a year ago. The 2021 wild ...

Severe dry conditions during the summer of 2025 reduced the province’s wild blueberry crop by approximately 55 percent.

In the era of superfoods, Maine blueberries aren't so super.The Maine wild blueberry industry harvests one of the most beloved fruit crops in New England, but it's locked in a downward skid in a time ...

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s wild blueberry industry could be looking at another difficult summer, as the year’s total crop is projected to remain much smaller than just a few years ago. The Pine ...

At midday on a hot day in early August, pop music mixes with the whir of a custom-built winnower, the machine that separates a crop of freshly raked wild blueberries from the leaves and twigs and ...

New management strategies may be needed to ensure Maine's wild blueberry crops can handle rising temperatures Downeast. Wild blueberry fields in the region are warming faster than for the state as a ...

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Maine's wild blueberry harvest declined by more than 25% last year. According to a report from the USDA, farmers produced about 78 million pounds of wild blueberries in 2022, a 26 percent drop from ...

DEBLOIS, Maine | Mary Marshall grew up living the life of a migrant farmer, spending hours under the hot summer sun picking wild blueberries with her parents and eight siblings, then ending the day ...