Finding a pack of blueberries these days is as easy as pie — they’re plentiful in both the fresh and frozen sections of the supermarket. But while the supply is high, the market price has taken a dive, and that has growers feeling blue.
Ask a Maine wild blueberry grower how business is these days, and you’ll get a common response.
“Terrible. Just horrible,” says William Rudelitch recently in Ellsworth, where he was attending one of several meetings organized by the Maine Cooperative Extension to discuss strategies for staying in business.
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