However, many others report that when George (not William, see below) Wells planted his first hop yard in Buena Vista in 1867 commercial hop production officially arrived in Oregon. Published references are also found in records comparing hop production between 18, such as the one below from Henry Reed’s 1903 article.īut there is conflicting information about who the “first commercial hop grower was in Oregon.” According to Virginia Eastlick in The Oregon Geers, Frederick Walcott Geer brought hop seeds with him to Oregon in 1846 and planted them near Silverton when he died in 1866 he was the first successful hop farmer in Oregon. There are stories of hop growing as early as 1849, as seen referenced in this 1963 article. ![]() The exact date hop seeds arrived and made it into our fertile soil is unknown, but we know the plants grown in Oregon were the first on the Pacific Coast. New York was the first state to commercially produce hops in the early 19th century, but the specialty crop moved west with the people. ![]() Hops in Oregon have a long and varied history, full of tales from pickers, disease, Big Beer and craft brewing, and a solid research foundation at Oregon State.
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