What's going on here?

nrowles

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Without researching, what is your guess as to what my neighbor is up to? These poles gotta be about 15-20' out of the ground. I was puzzled until I asked.

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I also say its hops. Starting to see more
and more of that.

My uncle works at a University of Maryland
research farm. They put in a big test plot
of them.
 
So I am wondering about the profitability of growing hops? Anyone here try and sell any? I have a couple vines that grow up the side of the
barn. I have picked about 1 gallons of hops. Throw them in tea. But the idea of the effort to set all those poles, wires, mowing the area, picking
several acres then trying to find a top dollar buyer has me wondering what the likely dollar results will be? Hard work for minimum wage?
 
In the Willamette valley of Oregon they grow thousands of acres of hops. The picture looks similar to how they are grown here. The poles used here are ~16 feet tall. Hard to guess how tall the ones in the picture are. There is a top line and a ground line and then string is zig-zagged up and down between the lines for the plant to grow up on.
 
I've seen stories on TV on raising them. They said they're contracted years out in advance and there's big money in the ones that are contracted,but it's feast or famine for the ones that aren't contracted.
 
Yep Hops it is. What I heard was that they either own or are affiliated with a local micro brew. This is the first I've seen this in my area. At first I thought it was some redneck construction, which I can be guilty of myself here and there.
 
My guess is hops, too. Around here there's a hop operation every few miles as craft brewing is becoming a big thing. Profitability remains to be seen.
 
There are a lot grown in the Traverse City Mich area and they look just like that. One grower put in all the processing equit so he could do his own. It was quite an operation when they showed the harvest on TV. He said that they only stayed in the ware house for a short time after they were dryed and baled but he did not say where they went to
 
(quoted from post at 06:32:08 05/27/18) Without researching, what is your guess as to what my neighbor is up to? These poles gotta be about 15-20' out of the ground. I was puzzled until I asked.

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We had that in my town in a sandy discontinued quarry. It was common knowledge that it was an antenna array for communicating with extra terrestrials. Well, until one day we saw bunch of guys in there with utility service bucket trucks.
 
In the early 1900's this area used to grow a lot of hops, but I guess the market went away. In the last few years they have been pooping back
up, I'm guessing to supply all the micro brewery's starting up.
They seem to be pretty labor intensive
Pete
 
The latest "fad" of micro breweries are driving the demand for different hops varieties than what the "big gulp" breweries want to maintain the taste over millions of gallons brewed.

Also grown outside of the area where the big gulp breweries get their hops stock.

Different varieties, different soil, different weather will give many variations of taste that the micro breweries like to use.
 
(quoted from post at 13:58:56 05/27/18)
(quoted from post at 06:37:00 05/27/18) hops


Hops also
In the early 1900's through the 1940's many acres of hops grown in my area of NNY.Nearly 50 acres on the farm next door.Most grown on poles but a few growers grew on poles and hi-wires.Very labor intensive if grown on poles alone.
 

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