October is hazelnut season in Oregon. As the fall foliage hits it peak, but before the rains come, the Willamette Valley’s roughly 1,000 hazelnut farmers are busy collecting their crop. More than 60% ...

The birds and bugs are singing at Dave Bohnhoff’s farm in Plymouth, Wisconsin. His hazelnut orchard is a paradise for chipmunks, blue jays, and insects, as well as a group of visiting farmers here to ...

Dear Master Gardener: What kind of nut trees can we grow in northern Minnesota? Can we grow black walnuts? Answer: Hazelnuts are hardy in northern Minnesota (zone 3). The hazelnuts you find in the can ...

According to Fresh Plaza, a cold snap combined with heavy rain has reduced hazelnut yields across Ordu Province, one of the nation's key regions for hazelnut production. Farmers are reporting that ...

Researchers are developing hybrid hazelnuts for biofuel, animal feed. Aug. 13, 2010— -- If a national research group has its way, U.S. farmers will soon add a new crop to their fields -- ...

RIDGEFIELD — For Ridgefield farmer Rob Baur, harvesting his farm’s first commercial hazelnut crop this fall and shipping it off to buyers was a race against time and nature. “You have to beat the ...

With a resurgent pathogen threatening Oregon orchards, a new hazelnut breeder is facing a remarkably similar problem as his predecessor did four decades ago. Though history isn’t exactly repeating ...