A Report on Cranberry Growing and Northland INC. Northland , Inc. is the world's largest grower of , it has 2,841 acres in production and 20,000 acres of support land. Northland operates 20 growing properties in the central and northern parts of Wisconsin and 4 in Massachusetts. Northland was established as a public company in 1987, when five companies formed a partnership. It was the largest supplier of in the Ocean Spray cooperative, the company voted to go independent in 1992 and assume responsibility for marketing its own fruit through ....