Beer is brewed with dried hops due to the flower’s extremely short shelf life. But during the three-week harvest season in Oregon (generally between mid-August and mid-September), brewers have the ...

Hop picking season has started at UK farms - amid fears the warmest summer on record has caused a national shortage and could lead to beer price surges. Farmer and hop grower Tom Spilsbury says his ...

Environmental health advocates and farmers are raising a glass to the expansion of hop production to help boost the viability ...

Hops are harvested in this file photo. In August, the USDA estimated this season’s harvest at 82.1 million pounds, down 5.7% from 2024. The crop won’t contribute to oversupply and is high quality, ...

To keep growers competitive, the Hop Commission is spearheading the ‘‘Hop Industry Economic Viability Initiative,'' which is entering its second phase with a $1.5 million appropriation from the 2005 ...

An aerial view of Combine harvesters from the agricultural company Markfrucht Luetzow harvest rapeseed in a field after sunset. Jens Büttner/dpa German farmers harvested significantly more hops in ...

Across the Yakima Valley this month, tractors and picking machines have been rumbling to life to send millions of pounds of hops from bine to bale. At the heart of the nation’s hop industry, the ...

YAKIMA VALLEY – The challenges facing the Washington hop farmer are aplenty, mused Jeff Perrault, while staring out at several hundred acres of lush trellises on his family farm a few miles west of ...

The startlingly intense, vibrant green aroma of fresh hops is enough to make any beer lover’s knees buckle. The culprit is lupulin, a yellow pollen lookalike produced in the cone-shaped hop flower.