Oregon Hazelnuts Receive 15-20% Premium – Room to Grow.
Hazelnut plantings in Oregon’s Willamette Valley have more than doubled over the past decade, and many people are asking about the long-term assessment of the hazelnut industry. Are there too many hazelnuts being planted? Can the market absorb the new plantings? The...
Andy and Sherrie Alberding: Orchard owners learn as they grow
Original Article: Capital PressROSEBURG, Ore. — When Andy and Sherrie Alberding finally purchased a country home and property, they also got themselves a new learning opportunity “I’ve wanted to buy property in the country since I was a kid,” said Andy Alberding, now...
Jesse and Rachel Nielsen: Hazelnuts a family affair
Original Article: Capital PressROSEBURG, Ore. — When part of the family ranch was made available for sale, Jesse and Rachel Nielsen didn’t hesitate to move back to Douglas County. In 2007, the couple purchased 80 acres of the ranch’s bottomland that parallels the...
Oak Park Farms: Efficiencies are key to hazelnuts
Original Article: Captial PressSHEDD, Ore. — Oak Park Farms dates back to 1850, when Washington L. Coon took out a donation land claim in Linn County, Ore., eight years before the first hazelnut was planted in the state. He returned to Pennsylvania to marry Susan, a...
How to Protect Our Food from a Crazy Climate? Consider the Hazelnut.
Original post in Grist.com By Nathanael Johnson In 2013, a cold snap in Ordu, Turkey, set off a chain-reaction that ended with terrible consequences for lovers of hazelnut chocolate. Ordu is a picturesque city between the mountains and the Black Sea, where a quarter...
