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% ...

Youthful, blight-resistant Jefferson trees are the heroes of this fall’s Willamette Valley hazelnut season, boosting Oregon’s crop yield. The harvest started early, at the end of a hot, dry August but ...

For all devoted fans of Nutella, the threat of a global hazelnut shortage is disturbing news. The soaring popularity of the rich cocoa and hazelnut spread has driven up demand for hazelnuts worldwide, ...

With the price of hazelnuts going ever higher, it is time to grow your own. There are even new Oregon State University-bred cultivars that are immune to Eastern filbert blight, a disease that has ...

I grow just three filbert trees in my front garden. So far, only one is a decent producer. This past warm summer was good to this one tree and now I have a huge bowl of nuts that I need to roast. I ...

While forecasters are predicting a record-high Oregon hazelnut crop in 2018, a newly published study suggests the industry might not be where it is today if growers did not use fungicides to manage a ...

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 ...

Several species of hazelnuts (we usually call the plants filberts) can be grown here, but I'm guessing that you're talking about the European filbert (Corylus avellana) that yields the hazelnut you ...

After years of living in the shadow of well-funded and aggressively marketed pistachios, almonds and walnuts, Oregon hazelnuts are now ready to inspire manufacturers and consumers as the star ...

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 ...

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