Our Nephew Paul took us on a tour of a local hop farm. The hops are ready for harvest.
From the field to the barn.
We inspect what a hop really looks like. Paul with Larry, Linda, and Rockey.
This is what they look like. If they split exactly down the middle like this they are ready to harvest.
The truck brings them in and they are hung not to dry but to go through a series of conveyor belts and machinery to shake the hops from the vines.
It takes the hops off and the vines go to be ground up and eventually put back into the field.
Another view of the machinery. The hops are headed to a drying room.
We walked to the top to look down on the process.
Ready to follow the hops to the drying room
There they go into the drying room.
The drying process.
When they are totally dry they are sent to the packing room.
They are packaged into tightly packed bales.
Then loaded onto trucks.
They are their way to a special processor in WA. Most are dried and vacuum packed in Mylar. So at that point they are returned to OR for storage and sales distribution.
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