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 ...

U.S. hops production increased 2% to 104 million pounds in 2023 despite a 10% drop in acreage, according to the USDA. That’s due in large part to more plantings in Washington and Idaho of high alpha ...

MUNICH — Two students in Munich, sipping beers on their dormitory couch in 2022, chatted about a recent lecture describing the use of banana fibers in Colombia to make sustainable building materials.

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 ...

The growing season in the Pacific Northwest has been unusual this year — a cold spring followed by an unseasonably hot and dry summer. “[What] we’re seeing all over the globe is a little bit less ...