Best Advice for Starting a Hop Yard
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- I know it seems like a dream world where you can set up the whole yard before you have plants. After all, you are going to want to start your plants because they take a couple years to establish. That couple years will go A LOT better if you are not trying to finish up your yard while working around the plants.
That, and especially in the NorthEast US there are very limited resources for hop growers, including skilled labor. If you are going to be making this huge investment do your research, take your time, and do it right. It will pay off down the line.
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you just saved me a ton of stress...I was planing on starting mine this year and was worried about how fast I could get the poles, wire etc set up....now i have all summer to look for the plants I want in 2018 and I will have my damn built for the extra water...
Great video. I'm having similar problems with our vegetable farm in PA. I needed to have more deer fencing up, currently only have 2.5 acres fenced in and really needed about 6. It has definitely been an issue with animal pressure. We are moving to New England and my wife is stressing that its important that I keep my farming career going without any lapse. I am stressing that I won't put myself through the anguish of not having infrastructure again. So I am taking this next year and maybe only doing a small market garden for one market rather than the 4 acres I'm doing for 3 markets now. We are chemical free (not sure if you're certified organic), but that makes everything 10x harder like you stated in your video. Hopefully people watching aren't deterred but more so open to better insight than perhaps their extension agent can ever give. Thanks again, love your channel.
My brother in law and I just started a small run this year. This fall and early next spring we'll be graduating to telephone poles and cable. Anyhow, I appreciate the video and advice.
Very curious and interested. I have been looking for advice and this video is very helping. Thanks
I did your # 1 too, ive fought for 2 years now
John, have you seen, thought about, or tried the wood chip base? Layer cardboard to kill the weeds, most stores will give it to you free. And use fresh cut chipped trees to cover the cardboard. I'm talking the bulk stuff a tree service dumps after doing a days work trimming trees; leaves and all. The back to Eden garden is what I'm referencing. Paul (don't want to butcher last name) has an amazing success story with it. I'd like to get your opinion of it. Maybe try it in half your hop field?
Thanks John. Am going to start a 2 acre yard In Washington state. Appreciate the vids.
Washington State is a good place to grow hops!
Putt compost (minimum 3') around the plants before they starts growing or just after, then you don't have a problem with weed before cheeps taking care of it. Regards from Finland, and keep the grate work going!
Very interesting and thorough. Best of luck with your fields and all future endeavors.
Thanks Matteo. I've picked up a ton of hop-knowledge this year. Hope to share it more next season. The year always gets away from me.
thank you for sharing your experience. best wishes, N&D
How do you market your hops? Do you use them for the brewery you have on your farm? Do you sell them directly to brewers or is there a middleman that buys and sells hops you go through?
A video about harvesting and selling hops would be interesting to watch.
Thanks for all the great videos you make.
Thanks for your advice mate!!
Thanks for sharing.
It sucks that the hops are not doing well, did you do a soil test? Have you thought of planting a cover crop like alfalfa which gives of nitrogen? It looks like you have a lot of growth around your plants, which are probably taking away the nutrients from the hop plants.
Thank you so much!!!!
I have 5 acres and was looking for something to do with it.. thanks for your advice...
Move to Yakima its the perfect climate your hops will grow fine their.
Dude! Thanks for making this video!
love the honesty! Thanks!
Thanks My friend. I appreciate the advice.
love your work champ
fingers crossed we'll be setting up our first acre of hop field and can certainly understand your year 1(Infrastructure) & year 2 (plant hops) approach
I have been sketching out my understanding of the infrastructure based on your input (and that of others), I think I'm getting a rough idea now :)
I might have missed it but did you specify in your videos what size poles (length and thickness, type of wood?) and also what size wire for primary and secondary lines?
keep up the good work and nice laid back style
About to buy 100 acres and start a hops and barley farm. In hopes that micro brews and home brew stores would be intrested. Any advice would be helpful. So thank you.
Yes that sounds like good advice but how are you supposed to learn about what conditions your plants are going to like and if you are even setting things up correctly if you haven't had at least some experience with living plants? Would t it make more sense to grow a small amount of hops in a segregated area rather than having no plants at all for year one? I just don't know how you are supposed to learn and get more proficient growing hops, if you're not actually growing hops
Hi John....good of you to share it....We produce Coir twine for hop stringing with 85 to100 lbs tensile strength ...Our Factory is in India..Can you advise us if we could supply to hop farms in US...
Informative video thank you. I would like to get hops rhizomes or Seed kindly advise
My first year grasshoppers ate all my hops any info on controlling them
I hope your doing well now bud. Felt your pain
Whats a good place to get starter roots/plants ?
solid sdvice... thank you
What’s your thoughts on field tiling? Water drains away from my fields but I’m not sure how to test this before I put my poles in and get year one underway. Mud has only been a problem in early spring then irrigation would be required. The last thing I would want is root rot issues
Would it be bad if you plant the hops halfway through the year after you have everything set up in the spring and let the plants establish the first year? Then just trim them back and composting what grows? Instead of waiting till next spring to plant them?
Thank you!
at this point would you after your trials and tribulations would you recommend a novice part time beginning farmer such as myself avoid jumping into starting a hops venture? great channel by the way
+sunny patch farm Yeah, until there are some more people doing it and we figure some stuff out I might not recommend it for the North East US. The yields just aren't there. OR, start, but start really small and learn the plants first. At 410k - $12k per acre to get it going then you're in for some investment if you want to start hop farming.
Thanks for the video.. Could you please expand on your numbers above?
I'm struggling on how to make hills for the hops to keep them out of standing water. What did you do to create the hills and how wide are the hills? thank you for the wonderful videos
+Jared Nicholls You're not going to want to be on a site where there's standing water. The roots like to go deep and standing water means there's no air in the soil. They require a lot of water but they also want well drained soil. That said, you can use a raised bed shaper/maker, or turn soil over with a single bottom plow and then go back and smooth it out after.
Hi John, any advice on how to start a Hop Yard in Hallertau. Germany, I have spend countless hours on the web, but very little info, but if you have any information, anything at all, please let me know, thank you very much.
Within the IHGC (ihgc.org) - global hop industry network - you may find various market and production info and contacts.
Regards, Martin
What angle should the cable be from the anchor to the first pole? We are trying to get the trellis system set up. Thanks
thank you
do you rent your land or do your own?
im trying to find land and, its harder then anything i know how to do.
John Suscovich
I know you've had sheep in there but have you tried goats? Once the hops are harvested get some goats in there, they'll eat everything
+TraumaQueen65 Goats are more likely to eat the bines that make up the base of the hop plant. I would probably lose more plants.
John Suscovich Oh, OK then no goats. Maybe try that plastic cover you tested? That seemed to work a treat
Also, is all your wiring steel cable?
TQ65, goats will eat the weeds, the lower leaves from the hop bines, then they will stand on their hind legs and eat the hop leaves several feet up the bines and even pull the bines down from the suspension system to get at more leaves, and worst of all they will chew the bines off at their base. The goats will eat the suspension twine, and they will chew the bark off of the poles. Goats are more useful on the B-BQ.
I have experience of 26 years of growing half in Kashmir and had with Nache and inducted meaning why college
Let me come work on the farm with you haha :)
what part of us u growing this
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hello
im from Germany and have a question
how many do cost 1 Pound Hop... cascade and Amarillo aso.
thank you
+hopsi hop Hops can go for about $14 USD per pound here. It depends on the variety, some a little more and some a little less.
+John Suscovich thank you very much
wow very much
in germany the pound cost only 3 euro... thats crazy
+John Suscovich
how much year you can sell it for 14 dollar ?
sorry for my english :-)
Preco to video stacilo audio vole!
Sort yourself out then! ;)
Would have thought that would be pretty common sense 😂 gezzus that's dumb
Thank you!