Cultivated and wild blueberries compete -- and cooperate -- to create one very healthy industry. Fruit Grower continues to look at the future of growing in our ongoing millennium series. It's a tale of two blueberries. Cultivated (highbush) blueberries and wild (lowbush) blueberries are competing crops with common interests. Each operates separately with its own association and lays claim to a significant portion of the market -- yet each group seems to benefit from the work of the other. Like manyother crops in recent years, blueberry growers have begun to feel the pressures of increasing production, falling prices, and shifting consumer-demand. Unlike growers of some other crops, however, many in the blue- berry industry believe things may be looking up.
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