The tangled pile of uprooted trees in the center of the bare, frozen field was so large it dwarfed the nearby farmhouse. In the shadow of snow-capped mountains, Peter Andres watched as the pile ...

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 ...

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 ...

AURORA, Ore. — Maryclair Birkemeier and David Stehman were married on a sunny day under a canopy of orderly hazelnut trees at Meridian Orchards in 2010, simultaneously becoming partners in life and in ...

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. — Might hazelnuts one day be a third crop in Minnesota? "I would say a third crop, not the third crop," said Lois Braun, a University of Minnesota hazelnut researcher. Braun led a ...

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 ...

Hazelnut bushes grown by the Forever Green Initiative at the University of Minnesota. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up now for headlines, breaking ...

Hazelnuts is a high-yield, lower-cost crop, but returns take time and experts advice against the switch after two bad cherry ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

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 ...

What do an apple grower looking to add crops, a marketing professional working to introduce consumers to sustainable varieties, and a fourth generation dairy farmer looking to diversify have in common ...