Laptop Battery J. Garfield DeMarco, the state's second largest cranberry grower, is not harvesting a crop this fall, fueling speculation the longtime Burlington County GOP power broker is getting out of the business.
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Thinkpad The 64-year-old DeMarco, who grows one-fourth of the state's crop, is not expected to deliver cranberries to the Ocean Spray growers' cooperative during the harvest, just getting under way.
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Microsoft "He's elected not to harvest this year," Daniel Mouw, manager of Ocean Spray's Chatsworth Receiving Station, said Monday.
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Laptop Computers DeMarco's Hammonton-based business, A.R. DeMarco Enterprises, can produce up to 150,000 barrels - or 15 million pounds - of cranberries on more than 700 acres of bogs. Most of his bogs are around the village of Chatsworth in rural Woodland.
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Laptop Computer His is the third largest among Ocean Spray's 800 member farms in the United States and Canada.
The white cranberries are harvested roughly three weeks earlier than usual, before they turn the traditional crimson color. Right now, Ocean Spray growers are harvesting the white cranberries in Wisconsin, Massachusetts and parts of southern New Jersey, including Burlington County. "For us, it's worth doing, " said Joe Darlington, an Ocean Spray grower who is harvesting white cranberries on his farm in Pemberton Township.
Desktop Computer "This will definitely affect the (size of) our crop. But we believe we have all the fruit we need to do what we want to do," Mouw said.
Notebooks DeMarco did not return phone calls Monday. Last year, he estimated his business was losing $1 million a year as a result of a plunge in wholesale prices.
Lenovo Once a $25 million cash crop, cranberries generated only about $8 million in revenues to the state's growers two years ago because production outpaced demand.
Hard Drive Prices hit a high of more than $60 per barrel in 1998, but the market glut sent prices spiraling to $8 to $12 per barrel two years later.
Travelstar Prices are starting to rebound; Ocean Spray estimates growers will make $23 to $28 per barrel for this year's harvest.
Gateway DeMarco is the former chairman of the Burlington County Republican Party and is the chairman of the Burlington County Bridge Commission.
Laptop Parts DeMarco's attorney, Anthony Drollas, and his spokesman, Robert Stears, also did not return calls.
Software There's no love lost between DeMarco and Ocean Spray. Two years ago, as prices plunged, DeMarco filed a suit against Ocean Spray, trying to force the company to sell to or merge with a larger company.
Hard Drives He and two other growers argued the cooperative, which they maintain is controlled by wealthy farmers, failed to entertain offers to sell, despite the free fall in cranberry prices.
Electronics The suit has not been resolved, but DeMarco remains a member of the cooperative, company officials said.
Canon DeMarco also is fighting a $594,000 fine from the Department of Environmental Protection. Four years ago, the DEP charged DeMarco with creating new bogs by illegally filling in 22 acres of wetlands.
Desktop Pc Six months after graduating from Yale University, DeMarco was thrust into his family's cranberry business when his father, Anthony R., died in a car crash on Dec. 31, 1964. Anthony R. DeMarco founded the business around 1941.
Desktop Computers Rumors that DeMarco planned to get out of the cranberry business have been churning for much of the year. He laid off most of his workers after last fall's harvest, other growers said.
Think Pad In the spring, he did not put in sprinklers needed for irrigation and frost control, and, in general, he neglected his bogs all year, growers said.
Repair "I think he made this decision at the end of last year," said Bill Haines Jr., owner of Pine Island Cranberry Co. and a member of the state's largest cranberry-growing family. "I know he would like to sell the place."
Data Recovery Joe Darlington is owner of Joseph J. White Inc., a Pemberton Township farm. He hopes DeMarco is just taking a break for a year or two until cranberry prices rise more.
Cisco DeMarco's departure will mean the state's other growers, most located in the Pinelands, will have to contribute more to the upkeep of the Ocean Spray receiving station on Route 563, Darlington said.
Keyboard "It's disheartening when you lose that much of the state' s crop," he added. "I was hoping he'd keep at it."
Monitor Cranberries are hardy plants and could survive for years without upkeep, said Nicholi Vorsa, director of the Philip E. Marucci Center for Blueberry and Cranberry Research in Chatsworth. But soon shrubby plants and trees would take over, he said.
Desktop Some speculate DeMarco has been laying the groundwork to get out of the business for at least a couple of years. In recent years, DeMarco received $7.2 million from the sale of Pinelands Development Credits to the state and private developers.
Infosys Credits are a method of compensating landowners in preservation areas of the Pinelands National Reserve for a loss in land value resulting from regional growth controls. In return, DeMarco has agreed to deed restrictions preserving thousands of acres of other land, even though he had long been a critic of growth controls.
Refurbished Laptops Chris Phillips, spokesman for Massachusetts-based Ocean Spray, said two years of federal production caps and Ocean Spray's marketing of new products, such as white cranberry juice, have helped to ease the situation. The caps have been lifted this year. He could not confirm if DeMarco is getting out of the business.
Wipro DeMarco is quietly negotiating sales of his land to to conservation groups, private individuals, and even the state, said Jeff Tittel, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club. DeMarco's departure could prove positive for protection of the Pinelands, Tittel said.
Lap Top "Environmentally, cranberry bogs, when abandoned, can revert back to wetlands, which are much better for the the environment," he said.
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