date:Aug 06, 2019
evel. Often, this can result in cost savings for the grower while also ensuring a company's environmental footprint remains small.
For years brewers attempted to assess water sustainability at the field-level. However, in the drought-prone regions of the Western US (Montana, Idaho, Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming) where brewers contract with local farmers to source barley, rice and to a lesser extent hops, growers depend heavily on irrigation systems to ensure yield and quality standards, OB