The enterprise budget provides estimates of production costs for a well-managed hop enterprise in Yakima Valley, Washington as of 2010. Three producer scenarios are presented to demonstrate how the enterprise budget can be used to evaluate situations in which the producer may find him/herself....

The Hop Administrative Committee of the hop marketing order has been reasonably accurate m projecting quantities supplied and demanded and in formulating their recommended salable percentage to the Secretary of Agriculture The Federal Hop Marketing Order has helped stabilize hop acreages and...