Current efforts focus on evaluating the potential for hop as a viable specialty crop for Nebraska, as well as, the Great Plains region. His current research efforts are evaluating hop productivity for eight commercially proven hop cultivars at four locations across NE. Hop qualitative characteristics are being measured in response to the differing geographic and climatic conditions in the region. Several extension programs have been given to potential and newly emerging growers, providing foundational knowledge on hop production, specific cultivation recommendations appropriate to NE conditions, and considerations for harvesting, processing and marketing hops as a small scale grower.