HARVESTING HOPS From the Farm to Your Beer The secret to your favorite flavors of beer is inside the hop plant, and Oregon is the second-largest hop-producing state in the country. Last year alone, more than ten million pounds of hops, worth more than 34 million dollars were harvested across the state, mostly in the Willamette Valley Vineyards, but as Central Oregon Daily photojournalist Matt Pugerude shows us, Cascade Hop Farm #inRedmond is adding its fair share to those numbers this year durin