Research was published last week that shows global warming could cause a shortage of barley thus less beer. Brewers think the agricultural industry will adapt to the change and continue to thrive.
Dwight Little, president of the Idaho Grain Producers Association, said “If warming happens as they say it will, my impression is that it will come in small, incremental increases over a long time, and that allows farmers time to change.”
A team of researchers from China, the United States, Britain and Mexico believe global beer production will fall by 16 percent though. The researchers think the barley will go to livestock farming and it will take precedence over beer production. Beer consumption will then fall by 29 billion liters according to a study conducted in 2011.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/18/658174335/brewers-barley-growers-say-don-t-drown-your-sorrows-over-global-warming-just-yet
Good on the attribution for Little.
For the lead: Catch the listener’s attention first: Global warming could cause future shortages of barley. That could mean less beer.
Then the facts.
Then, maybe go into why farmers are not immediately concerned.