Oregon Drought Issues & Hop Production Figures

Oregon Drought Issues & Hop Production Figures

Oregon Drought Issues & Hop Production Figures plus New Dietary Guidelines. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

Oregon, like the rest of the northwest is dealing with water issues and Margaret Matter, ODA's water quantity specialist says they are asking themselves a lot of questions.

MATTER: What are we looking at going forward? What can we anticipate or at least reasonably anticipate and then what are some of the things we can do to help better forecast and prepare for because that's sort of the bottom line. If you can get information to people earlier so that they can plan. Then have options in place to get them through.

Hop production in the northwest continues to lead the nation as the latest report from the National Ag Statistics Service shows. Production for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in 2014 totaled 71.0 million pounds, up 3 percent from the 2013 crop of 69.2 million pounds. Production increased 18 percent in Idaho, decreased 4 percent in Oregon, and increased 2 percent in Washington. Acreage increased in all three States with a 12 percent gain in Oregon and Idaho, and a 6 percent increase in Washington. Yield decreased in Oregon and Washington, but increased in Idaho. Washington growers produced 79 percent of the United States hop crop for 2014.

Now a special panel of nutrition experts has finished a report with updated advice to us on our diets. Gary Crawford reports.

(USDA Report)

Thanks Gary. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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