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December 23, 2016 CapitalPress.com 3 Hazelnut growers cleaning up after severe ice storm By ERIC MORTENSON Capital Press Dan Wheat/Capital Press Hop cones provide extract or oil needed in stabilizing and flavoring beer. Production has been increasing for years to meet the growing demand of craft breweries. Hops set acreage and production value records Capital Press MOXEE, Wash. — U.S. hop growers set records in acres harvested and value of production in 2016, and reached second best in produc- tion volume. Increases have been fueled for several years by growth of the craft beer industry but now supply has caught up with demand, said Pete Mahony, di- rector of supply chain manage- ment and purchasing for John I. Haas, a major processor and grower in Yakima. “Some varietal re-balanc- ing needs to occur but total U.S. acreage now seems suffi- cient to meet demand,” Maho- ny said. Extract from hop cones is used in making beer. A total of 50,857 acres were harvested, up 17 percent from the 2015 total of 43,633 acres and besting the record of 44,653 set in 1915, according to a Dec. 16 report from the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Value of production is esti- mated at $498 million, up 44 percent from the previous re- cord of $345 million in 2015. The increase in value is driven by greater production of higher value aroma varieties for craft breweries over lesser value alpha varieties for mass-pro- duction brewers. That shift caused higher average prices per pound in Washington, Or- egon and Idaho for an average of $5.72 per pound up from $4.38 in 2015, NASS said. Pacific Northwest growers wrapped up harvest this past fall with pre-harvest stocks just 2 percent greater than the year before, indicating supply is catching up with demand. “It’s my suspicion we will probably see the rate of plant- ing decrease but will see some new acreage this (coming) year,” Ann George, executive director of Hop Growers of America and the Washington Hop Commission in Moxee, said. “Some varieties are at equilibrium or a little above. Some specialty varieties are still in short supply.” Determining equilibrium in varieties of just a few hundred acres can be difficult, she said, because weather plays a role in yield and export demand still is increasing for some variet- ies. Mahony said new plantings will continue due to contracts made 6 to 12 months ago, but the rate of increase will be much lower than in recent years. “It could be at least 1,500 to 2,000 acres going in for 2017 but it is questionable whether any of this is truly needed in the slowing market. I would expect no expansion in 2018,” he said. Acreage in Washington was up 16 percent to 37,444; up 17 percent to 7,765 acres in Oregon and up 16 percent to 5,648 in Idaho, NASS said. With more acreage comes more investment in equipment and labor, George said. Qual- ity control of new food safety programs required by brewers also are driving up costs, she said. “While some varieties — most notably bittering hop CTZ — didn’t fare as well due to mildew and climatic pres- sure, brewers are putting in orders for hops that have excit- ing aromas but simply do not yield as much per acre,” said Blake Crosby, vice president of Hop Growers of America and president of Crosby Hop Farm LLC, Woodburn, Ore. U.S. production gained 11 percent in 2016 for the sec- ond year in a row, reaching 87.1 million pounds for Wash- ington, Oregon and Idaho, compared with 78.8 million pounds in 2015 and 70.9 mil- lion in 2014. Courtesy of Dwayne Bush A flash freeze in the Eugene, Ore., area toppled hazelnut trees like dominoes as the weight of ice pulled them down. Orchardists in the area reported heavy limb damage. Dwayne Bush, a third- generation hazelnut grow- er, said his trees in the Fern Ridge area west of Eugene came out of the storm OK, but his orchard next to Hen- derson’s was heavily dam- aged. He said trees he planted 16 and 17 years ago tended to lean to the south due to the sun’s position and a pre- vailing wind. 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