WAREHAM — Carol Reynolds scooped up handfuls of cranberries from the conveyor belt that was moving hundreds of thousands of pounds of the fruit from the bogs to a truck and offered them to the crowd nearby.

Reynolds, who works for A.D. Makepeace Co., started ticking off statistics as dozens crowded along the edge of the bog, watching workers wade into chest-high water and use rakes and booms to move the red patch of berries into a machine that sucked the fruits onto the conveyor belt, which then dumped the produce into the bed of a large truck that holds 500,000 pounds of the berries. story continues..