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Yakima Valley Hops
Yakima Valley · Yakima County · Yakima County hops acreage, 2022
USDA says Washington grows 71 percent of the nation's hops, and Yakima County alone had 32,488 acres in 2022.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service reported in 2023 that Washington grows 71 percent of U.S. hops, Idaho 16 percent, and Oregon 13 percent. Those three states grow 98 percent of the country's hops. USDA calls the Yakima Valley the heartland of that crop.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service 2022 Census of Agriculture listed 32,488 acres of hops in Yakima County. The photograph is a 1941 Farm Security Administration picture of hop pickers in Yakima County, made by Russell Lee.
Hops here are a field crop with a long paper trail, not a slogan. The sources below are USDA and the Library of Congress.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service2022 Census of Agriculture, Yakima County
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural ServiceHops
Last reviewed: September 20, 2026
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