Hazelnut Marketing Board Projects Record Crop in Oregon
The Hazelnut Marketing Board has concluded its annual Subjective Yield Survey, and the numbers look promising for the 2020 harvest. According to the survey, the harvest projects to be approximately 59,000 tons, which would be a record yield for Oregon’s hazelnut...
Family Has Deep Roots in Hazelnut Industry
By CRAIG REED For the Capital Press Hazelnuts are the main crop at Bush’s Fern View Farms, an agricultural operation a few miles west of Junction City, Ore. Dwayne and Jean Bush own the farm that includes 500 acres of hazelnut trees. Craig Reed for the Capital...
Disaster Aid Available for Hazelnut, Winegrape Growers
Original post in Capital Pressby George Plaven Heavy snow in February caused damage to mature hazelnut trees at Garry Rodakowski’s farm in Vida, Ore. Congress has approved a federal disaster relief package including $11 million for hazelnut growers whose crops...
Chinese Diplomat’s Visit a Good Omen for Oregon Hazelnut Growers
Original post in Capital Press by Mateusz Perkowski China’s consul general in San Francisco, Wang Donghua, speaks to hazelnut growers on Feb. 25 in Salem, Ore., with Larry George, president of the George Packing Co., in the background. [photo: George Packing...![Tree Crops Could Be the Staple Food of the Future [listen]](https://hazelnuts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/high-angle-view-scattered-cleaned-hazelnuts-brown-bowl-with-cocoa-spread-nutcracker-dark-stone-table-horizontal_176474-2161.jpg)
Tree Crops Could Be the Staple Food of the Future [listen]
By ELSPETH HAY A man gathers giant “Bixby” or “McAllister” hican nuts from a truly massive tree – about at 100 ft. tall and wide – in Pennsylvania. (Credit: Max Paschall) Staple crops are the basis of our everyday diets, the foods we eat all year round...
