On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie's farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business — a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has added winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation. In the face of human-caused climate change impacting water access and weather patterns in the Willamette Valley — a region known for hops growing — Goschie will need all the new strategies the farm can get to sustain what it produces and provides to local and larger breweries alike. All of a sudden, climate change "was not coming any longer," Goschie said, "it was here." Climate change is anticipated to only further the challenges producers are already seeing in two key beer crops: hops and barley. Some hops and barley growers in the U.S. say they've already seen their crops affected by extreme heat, drought and unpredictable growing seasons. Researchers are working with growers to help counter the effects of more volatile weather systems with improved hop varieties that can withstand drought and by adding winter barley to the mix.