CRANBERRIES A Report on Cranberry Growing and Northland Cranberries INC. Northland Cranberries, Inc. is the world's largest grower of cranberries, it has 2,841 acres in production and 20,000 acres of support land. Northland operates 20 growing properties in the central and northern parts of Wisconsin and 4 in Massachusetts. Northland was established as a public company in 1987, when five companies formed a partnership. It was the largest supplier of cranberries in the Ocean Spray cooperative, the company voted to go independent in 1992 and assume responsibility for marketing its own fruit through contracts with major manufact