Top executives from Italy-based confectioner Ferrero, Stefano Gagliasso, left, Marco Botta, center, and Matteo Mattei, right, recently visited a hazelnut processing facility in Oregon due to the ...

Melcher said he lost money that year on his Barcelona hazelnuts, and a lot of Oregon growers weren't fortunate enough to break even. "When you adjust for inflation, it was the worst price we've ...

Oregon hazelnuts growers produced 68,000 tons in 2022 in total — with a value or $88.4 million — and 94,200 tons of in-shell hazelnuts in 2023, valued at $127.1 million, ...

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.

According to Oregon State University’s Extension Service, more than 70,000 acres is devoted to growing hazelnuts in a region also well-suited to peaches, apples, and, of course, world-class ...

Homes & Gardens; A modern hazelnut orchard farmhouse puts Oregon family’s 100-year journey on display. Updated: ; Oct. 25, 2024, 11:10 p.m. | Published: ; Oct. 25 ...

Wilco will sell its Hazelnut Growers of Oregon processing business, eight years after the cooperatives merged in what was billed as a mutually beneficial partnership. TrendingSimplot must pay for ...

FILE- In this April 27, 2005, file photo, Joe Parsons, chef at Columbia Empire Farms in Sherwood, Ore., holds out hazelnuts at the farm. Rick Bowmer / AP Ecologists at the University of Oregon ...

Wilco announced in June it was trying to sell the Hazelnut Growers of Oregon portion of its business. In making that announcement, Wilco said it would make its final payments to hazelnut growers ...

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 ...