The U.S. cranberry harvest explained in four charts

Bright red cranberries are visible from space during the harvest season, which occurs from mid-September through mid-November in North America. These images show a sample of bog harvests in Wisconsin between 2015 and 2019 captured by the Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites. In 1959, a nationwide food panic erupted over a treasured Thanksgiving dish. Two weeks before the holiday, the federal government announced that cranberries had been contaminated by a cancer-causing chemical. Cranberry sales plummeted, schools tossed out cranberry products, restaurants eliminated the suspect fruit from menus.