Exactly right pudgym29. New York State used to be prime hop territory. After downy hit here, production was moved to eastern Washington State and other dry areas where downy has a much harder time getting started. Sacramento, where I grew up, had a couple of huge hop farms.
Hops are returning to NYS. Just down I-87 south of me near the border, is a new one acre-ish hop plantation. I don't know whether re-establishment is based on resistant varieties (as in some new wine grape-growing regions), or on newly acceptable pesticides (which, as with grapes) is only a short-term fix. But it's interesting to observe.
Geo
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