Climate change means more extremes for Washington hops farmer
The growing season in the Pacific Northwest has been unusual this year — a cold spring followed by an unseasonably hot and dry summer. “[What] we’re seeing all over the globe is a little bit less predictability and a little bit more extremes,” said Patrick Smith, a hops and apple farmer in Yakima,…
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