Washington, D.C. (January 10, 2007)--When growers say "hop," John Henning asks, "How low?"Henning is a plant geneticist in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit in Corvallis, Ore., where he and his colleagues areinvestigating a management technique that could save hops producers as much as 30 percent in labor costs. Oregon is one of the principal hop-producing states in the nation, second only to Washington.
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