1. Afterward, she and Hanron talked and agreed on a partnership to develop a comprehensive software application for cranberry growers. 2. But a collaboration between a cranberry grower and a software consultant is changing that. 3. For years cranberry growers have been frustrated because they could not advertise a claim they were convinced was true. 4. Now, cranberry growers and other producers want a bigger cut of federal subsidies. 5. Standing outside a warehouse once used by hundreds of local cranberry growers, Alan Hall can hardly finish a sentence. 6. That project, called Pinehills, will in turn be dwarfed by another being planned by A.D. Makepeace Co., a major cranberry grower. 7. The cranberry growers were particularly hard hit because at the time their crop was entirely seasonal. 8. They also offer weather information to local cranberry growers and the nuclear power plant in town. 9. Cranberry growers will be allowed to sell a third less fruit than normal this year in a government effort to prop up prices. |