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What Are Hybrid Hazelnuts, and Why Are Chefs Obsessed with Them? [video]
Original Post in Food & Wine By Sara Ventiera These buttery, super-sustainable nuts are showing up at the country's best restaurants. The hazelnut pie at Jersey City’s Razza Pizza Artigianale is nothing short of a masterpiece. Housemade mozzarella, ricotta, and a...
Oregon Hazelnut Growers Find New Markets and Go Direct To China
Original post in CD Media Sinking mud pie with hazelnuts (Image by Jeremy Keith, CD Media) CD Media spoke again with Larry George, CEO of Northwest Hazelnut company, to get an update on how the China-Trump trade negotiations were impacting his industry. His response...
Oregon Hands Out $2.1 M in Specialty Crop Block Grants
Original Post in Capital Press By GEORGE PLAVEN SALEM — The USDA is providing $2.1 million to help promote specialty crops in Oregon, including fruits, vegetables, tree nuts and nursery plants. Funding was announced Oct. 7, and comes from the Specialty Crop Block...
Merkley Visits Organic Hazelnut Orchard
Original post in Capital Press AURORA, Ore. — Walking along a muddy path between blocks of organic hazelnuts, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley listened while Jim Birkemeier talked about the process of replacing older trees with newer disease-resistant varieties. Merkley...
Tariffs Bring New Challenges for Agriculture
Original post in Newberg Graphic by Ryan Clarke Part 2 of 2: Leaders in the hazelnut and wine industries share their struggles with the country's trade war with China For hazelnut growers in the Chehalem Valley and throughout Oregon, the ongoing trade war with China...
Trade War Has Motivated The Hazelnut Industry (Radio)
Original post in Bloomberg Radio Larry George, CEO, George Packing Company, joined Doug Krizner and Tom Mackenzie on Daybreak Asia. He explains the impact the trade war has had on the hazelnut industry, taking a look at trading routes and prices. He goes on to how it...
Biology Major Recruits Hogs to Help Hazelnuts
Original post in Oregon Quarterly For Calvin Penkauskas, pigs are the secret weapon in a battle against a farmer’s enemy: filbertworms. The porkers’ chorus of delighted grunts cancel out their stealth. But they work fast—and they’re nothing if not dedicated to the...
Harvesting Hazelnuts in North Dakota
Original post in Prairie Public Radio The American Hazel CREDIT CHUCK LURA LISTEN AT PRAIRIE PUBLIC RADIO (2:30) Do you like hazelnuts? If so, you may be surprised to learn that regardless of where you are in North Dakota, there probably are some hazels growing near...
From Filberts to Hazelnuts. On the History and Naming of the Oregon State Nut and Other Naming Controversies
Original post in JDSupra Legal News What’s in a Name?: On Filberts, Hazelnut Milk, Shredded Wheat and Food Identity Standards Paul D. Swanson Lane Powell PC Defying a family trend around our dining table, I refused to call oleomargarine by its shorthand...
New Study Shows Nut Consumption May Help Reduce the Incidence of, and Mortality from Cardio Vascular Disease Outcomes
Original post in NutHealth.org New study shows nut consumption may help reduce the incidence of, and mortality from, Cardio Vascular Disease (CVD) outcomes. A meta-analysis of 19 prospective cohort studies was recently published in Nutrition Reviews. The results...
