Nuts for Hazelnuts: Growers Can’t Keep Up with Demand
Original post in Capital Press by Sierra McClain Dylan Bruck slid onto the seat of his ATV. His border collie, Zoey, leapt in after him and crawled between his legs. Bruck straightened his baseball cap and squinted at his orchards of hazelnut trees, gold-dusted by the...
Oregon State Scientist Sees Future in Homegrown Hazelnuts
Original post in Oregon Live Featured Image: Shawn Mehlenbacher has spent 33 years perfecting hazelnut varieties on OSU’s farm. By High School Journalism Institute Shawn Mehlenbacher is on an endless search for the perfect nut. He walks quickly past trees of all...
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...
Irrigation Innovations May be Key for Hazelnut Crops
Original post in Capital Press By GAIL OBERST INDEPENDENCE, Ore. — How much water does a hazelnut tree need to produce the best crop? Definitive answers are still in the future, but there’s hope in technology, and in the trials of other growers, said expert panelists...
