CARVER, Mass. (AP) — This time of year, cranberry farmers across the country are getting ready to harvest the berries so they can be on Thanksgiving dinner plates.

The king of cranberry states is Wisconsin, which long ago surpassed Massachusetts as the top producer, and bills itself as world's top producer of the berries that end up in sauce and juices. Most berries will be harvested between September and November.

Massachusetts remains the second-biggest producer but has seen a growing number of farmers retiring their cranberry bogs — marshes that allow the fruit to grow on low-lying vines in beds layered with sand, peat, gravel and clay.

When the cranberries are ready to be harvested, farmers flood their bogs with water and send out a picking machine to shake the berries from the vi

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