The price of Oregon’s signature nut is half what it was a year ago, but the executive director of the Hazelnut Growers Bargaining Association says low prices could drive up demand. Oregon’s hazelnut ...

October is hazelnut season in Oregon. As the fall foliage hits it peak, but before the rains come, the Willamette Valley’s roughly 1,000 hazelnut farmers are busy collecting their crop. More than 60% ...

An Oregon hazelnut grower wants a federal appeals court to reinstate his lawsuit alleging that USDA’s organic regulations unlawfully favor overseas agribusiness firms. Bruce Kaser, owner of Pratum ...

EUGENE, Oregon, October 31, 2025 (ENS) – The Upper Willamette Soil & Water Conservation District, UWSWCD, is planning to acquire a 200+ acre hazelnut orchard located on the lower McKenzie River to ...

When hazelnut prices steeply declined in 2022, it became one of the worst years Dennis Melcher had seen in the industry. Melcher said he lost money that year on his Barcelona hazelnuts, and a lot of ...

The Hazelnut Growers of Oregon cooperative has filed a lawsuit claiming a Canadian food processor has failed to pay for nearly $370,000 of hazelnuts. In a federal complaint filed in Eugene, Ore., the ...

EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Ecologists from the University of Oregon have designed a system to improve soil health and strengthen the long-term vitality of the state’s hazelnut industry — and now they’ve ...

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Wilco Farmers Cooperative has filed a notice with the state that it could lay off as many as 70 people at the cooperative-owned Hazelnut Growers of Oregon and close the business by the end of the year ...

At a public hearing held after their regular board meeting on Tuesday, April 21, Linn County Commissioners Roger Nyquist, ...

Hazelnuts drying on a street and sidewalk in Bulancak, Giresun, Turkey. An Oregon farm has prompted a federal trade investigation into allegations that imported Turkish hazelnuts are fraudulently ...