MOXEE, Wash. — U.S. hop production reached a record high of 107 million pounds in 2018, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
But production grew just 1 percent in 2018 versus 20 percent in 2017, a NASS report says. The U.S. produced 106 million pounds of hops in 2017 and 87 million in 2016.
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