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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mechanized Hop Harvest

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This video explains it all pretty well. I knew that hops were a perennial but I didn't know the entire vine was cut down for the harvest. Looks like a modern hop farm needs about a million dollars worth of machinery to function.

"American hop growers rely on export markets for the sale of over 70% of their annual production."
-- usahops.org

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