Hops can be started from seed, but you won’t know what sex you are growing until it flowers. Rarely, female hop plants have been known to produce a male vine or rhizome.

Hop plants have problems with downy mildew, a fungus that attacks plants primarily in April and May," said Shaun Townsend, the hops breeder for Oregon State University.

What are hops? When it comes to beer, they are arguably the most important ingredient and serve a wide range of purposes, from flavor to preservation.

Troegs Brewing Company's brewing crew (plus a couple beer writers) join forces to plant 1,200 hop plants at Carlisle's Sunny Brae Hops farm.

View full size Benjamin Brink/The Oregonian Pat Leavy at his Butteville farm, established in 1913. The hop harvest runs from mid-August to mid-September, though the perennial plants remain in the ...

The team planted 20 seedlings of traditional, common hops plants (Cascade and Chinook varieties) in April 2023 that were each 2 inches tall, a news release said. By July 2023, the plants had ...

OTTAWA — It is a brisk spring morning in mid-April and Kansas Hop Co.'s farm is a blank canvas. Clyde Sylvester walks across his property over to the 3 acres of soil where hops seeds are resting ...