U.S. hop production is expected to reach 104 million pounds this year, an increase of 2% over 2022, but a step back from the crop’s peak, according to USDA and industry data. According to Hop Growers ...

MOXEE — The annual hop harvest is underway at CLS Farms near Moxee, and over the next month it will involve several hundred workers, around-the-clock effort and the near-constant hum of machinery and ...

Every summer from around ages 7 to 12, Joyce Ham traveled with her parents and cousins from Grand Ronde to harvest hops at a farm in Keizer. This was the late 1930s and early ’40s, and the work helped ...

Buoyed by a historic year for lobster and a rebounding elver fishery, Maine's seafood haul in 2021 reached an all-time high value of $891 million. According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources ...

Across the Yakima Valley, hop growers are still making their way out of the shadow of the pandemic – but with the season now moving into full swing, industry leaders are optimistic they’ll be seeing a ...

YAKIMA – One of agriculture’s many challenges is that after the hard work of planting, growing and harvesting a crop is accomplished, someone still needs to buy it. Washington state and the Yakima ...

U.S. hops strung for harvest this season are forecast at 44,543 acres, an 18% drop compared to 2023, according to a new USDA report. “Our industry is certainly entering a really challenging period of ...

A Native American hop picker, circa 1930. Native Americans have a long history of harvesting hops and other crops in the Willamette Valley and contributing to making the Willamette Valley known by the ...