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 ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — Located along the bluffs outside of Lake City is Nine Hazels Farm, a hazelnut farm and nursery that sells fresh roasted hazelnuts, hazelnut oil and other products along with ...

SILVERTON, Ore. — Three members of the Silverton-area King Family Farms say the value-added slice of their hazelnut farming operation has taken up more and more of their nut tonnage each year. JoAnn ...

NEWBERG, Ore. — In 1976, three Oregon hazelnut farmers — John Newell, Dick Birkemeier and Ben Mitchell Jr. — partnered to form Willamette Hazelnut. “They were concerned about the financial direction ...

More than 70,000 of the Willamette Valley’s farmland is planted with hazelnuts, and the number is expected to double by 2025. However, less than 1% of this acreage is organic, which seems odd, ...

It’s a crisp October morning and just outside St. Paul, Oregon there are what looks like plumes of smoke in the air. Only it’s not smoke, it’s clouds of dust kicked up during a nearby hazelnut harvest ...