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On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has added winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation. In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — Goschie will need all the new strategies the farm can get to sustain what it produces and provides to local and larger breweries alike. All of a sudden, climate change "was not coming any longer," Goschie said, "it was here." Climate change is anticipated to only further the challenges producers are already seeing in two key beer crops: hops and barley. Some hops and barley growers in the U.S. say they ve already seen their crops affected by extreme heat, dro
On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has added winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation. In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — Goschie will need all the new strategies the farm can get to sustain what it produces and provides to local and larger breweries alike. All of a sudden, climate change "was not coming any longer," Goschie said, "it was here." Climate change is anticipated to only further the challenges producers are already seeing in two key beer crops: hops and barley. Some hops and barley growers in the U.S. say they ve already seen their crops affected by extreme heat, dro