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 ...

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 ...

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 ...