A University of Missouri Extension study has found that hops CAN grow in Missouri. MU’s Jim Quinn says that’s what they set out to discover on their quarter-acre plot in central Missouri two years ago, “Does it actually grow here, does it get some weird disease and just totally flunk because we’re on the southern edge of the growing area? And, right now, it looks like it could grow here!”
Quinn
says there were not a lot of disease issues for the hops but there WERE other
problems, “We did have winterkill issues with one cultivar, in particular, and
we also had problems with voles because of the way were managing the hops
through the winter.
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