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Washington hop farmers expect to harvest more than 29,000 acres of hops this season, The Seattle Times reported (is.gd/ItOina ). The U.S. Department of Agriculture says thats a 7 percent increase from last year. Washington grows 77 percent of the nations hops. At the same time the number of craft breweries is increasing, hop growers say they are facing labor shortages. So even though they are planting more acres, getting the product to market is becoming more of a problem. Read more here: tri-cityherald/2014/09/29/3176932/breweries-have-hop-farmers-racing.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:54:31 +0000

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