While many Oregon farmers pull back amid tariff worries, low crop prices and a difficult labor market, Jeff Newton plans to ...

BUTTERFIELD, Minn. -- In 2004, Norm Penner started planting hazelnut bushes on his farm in Butterfield. While the project has had challenges, Penner thinks there's still hope for hazelnuts with the ...

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% ...

From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over a 1-year-old hazelnut bush. "This makes me really happy," he said, holding a catkin — a cluster of pollen ...

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 ...

The Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative is looking to make growing and selling hazelnuts a reality for farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Savanna Institute, Regenerative Agriculture ...

CANTON, Minn. - A slow, lumbering machine built to harvest blueberries is expected to greatly speed up development of commercial farming of hazelnuts throughout the upper Midwest. Sue Wiegerefe and ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Harry Wesley planted one of the first filbert, as they were known then, orchards in the Garden Valley area west of Roseburg in about 1950. It was a 5-acre Barcelona nut orchard. Those ...

Things are getting nutty around my garden. Literally. The squirrels have been doing a lot of nut planting, mostly black walnuts, and I’ve joined in the game by removing excess seedlings, letting just ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Located along the bluffs outside of Lake City is Nine Hazels Farm, a hazelnut farm and nursery that sells fresh roasted hazelnuts, hazelnut oil and other products along with ...

Volunteers from around Western Mass. journeyed Sunday along back roads through dense woods to help the first commercial hazelnut farm bring in its 2024 harvest. Seva and Kalyon Water work an ...