Flax and hop cultivation were also of significant importance.

It was another century before hop cultivation began in the present-day United States in 1629.

This charter outlines the procedure for award of the Order to all who have merited it by their services in the field of hop cultivation.

New Zealand is fortunate in that it lies in the ideal latitude for barley and hops cultivation.

It was promised that this would deliver advantages, especially for local farmers, not just for the growing of cereals and farming of cattle but also for hop cultivation in the Hallertau.

The first documented instance of hop cultivation was in 736, in the Hallertau region of present-day Germany, although the first mention of the use of hops in brewing in that country was 1079.

The new owners announced that it was going to be renamed The Hopping Hooden Horse because of the hop cultivation in the area, and that it would have the initials JBVC after the name to retain the history of the town.