USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption
Original Release & Contact Info at USDA.gov Press Release Release No. 0078.19 Contact: USDA Press Email: press@oc.usda.gov (Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
Researchers use tiny wasp to control stinkbugs
Original post in the Capital Press by GEORGE PLAVEN CORVALLIS, Ore. — The samurai wasp may be small, but it is a mighty assassin of one of Oregon agriculture’s most detested pests — the brown marmorated stinkbug. No bigger than a pinhead, the tiny wasp lays its...
Scientists Breed Hazelnuts as the Next Cash Crop for Midwest Farmers
Original post at Newsbug.info By Greg Stanley, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) 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...
Syrian Refugees Toil on Turkey’s Hazelnut Farms with Little to Show for It
Original post in New York Times By David Segal Hazelnuts drying in Akcakoca on the Black Sea coast of northern Turkey, which grows about 70 percent of the world’s supply. Credit Omer Urer/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images On farms that produce 70 percent of the world’s...
Farm Diversifies Into Hazelnuts from Grass Seed
Original post in Capital Press Before 2009, Jay Thompson and his father, Tim, farmed only grass seed. The recession, which hit the grass seed and nursery industries especially hard, forced them to diversify. “It happened to coincide with some of the first releases of...
