What promoters say is the largest hops farm in the state is being developed in Foley in central Minnesota. Eric Sannerud says he met co-founder Benjamin Boo in college, they both liked beer and had an interest in farming. Sannerud says, “We started four years ago, grew just like a little bit of hops — like 20 plants, just very little bit of hops — and this fall we’ll be planting 40 thousand. So it’s been a wild ride.” Mighty Axe Hops is partnering with several companies to design and fund an 80-acre expansion of the farm which is expected to be finished by late fall. Co-founder Boo says their big customers currently are in the Twin Cities, but “there are a lot of great breweries throughout the state and so we’re kind of taking all comers and we’ll have the volume to work with everybody.”