With the rise in local craft beers and double IPAs, there's plenty of talk about hops, but discussion of malted barley is often secondary (if it's had at all). Both hops and barley have a notable ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — No beer. No barley. “That’s the kind of situation we're in,” Mark Black, North American Malteurop barley procurement and trials manager, told farmers during a presentation about ...

Most Americans probably don’t think about barley when they crack open a cold one. But their thirst for beer is about the only reason the once abundant crop hasn't disappeared. American farmers have ...

Beer sales in the United States declined in 2023, and that, combined with a robust supply of barley on hand, has resulted in a decreased demand for malting barley, particularly for Anheuser-Busch. An ...

Don Nygaard, a third-generation farmer in a remote corner of North Dakota, used to grow malt barley for Rahr Malting Corporation to make into lagers, pale ales and IPAs. But this year, he received no ...

MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) — On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie’s farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer ...

Barley markets have had a difficult few years, with supply greatly outpacing demand, which has continued to shrink. But an expert says the market appears to be getting right-sized as 2026 approaches.

Tokyo, Dec 3, 2009 (Sapporo Breweries Ltd. (PINK:SOOBF)(Head Office: Tokyo; President Masaru Fukunaga) is launching sales of the world’s first beer produced using malt made 100% from “space barley,” ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Overdue loans and mounting interest payments often weigh on Montana barley grower Mitch Konen as he bales hay and loads trailers at his remote farm overlooking the snow-capped ...

Barley Brown's Beer Left to right: Addison Collard, Tyler Brown and Eli Dickison. Photo courtesy of Tyler Brown. One of Oregon’s most decorated breweries just took home its biggest trophy to ...

Tyler Brown had always taken pride in the fact that you would never find his beer in cans. The founder of Barley Brown’s—one of the state’s most decorated breweries located about five hours east of ...