The aroma enfolds and beguiles, and not a few hop pickers succumbed to the time-honored tradition of grower and brewer -- chafing a hop cone into leafy paste between the palms, then submerging ...

Two hop pickers, the first a Puerto Rican, whose name was not known, but remembered by workers for his love of the breakfast served at a Wheatland restaurant, were dead. The second, 18-year-old ...

Sometimes they call it "the blue machine," and other times it's the machine that grower Don Desmarais built 15 years ago in Mabton. Technically, it's a low-trellis hop picker.

Hop farms in Russia requires about 140 hop pickers to harvest this crop, deputy prime minister of the Chuvash Republic Sergey Artamonov told Russian Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev during ...