Peanuts are used in many ways and in many fields. It's crucial that enough are grown. Helping the cause is this U.S. state, ...

Rutgers University plant biologist Tom Molnar has bred a blight-resistant hazelnut tree to help address a worldwide hazelnut shortage, the university recently announced. The new tree introduces a ...

As the last of this season’s hazelnuts fall off the tree, growers from across New Zealand are calling for more research into increasing production to crack the local sector open. The Hazelnut ...

Over time, people planted the Bradford pear as an ornamental tree. As they started growing in the warmer southern regions of the country, they went on to spread north and eventually became invasive.

Hazelnuts are a tree nut native to the eastern half of North America. Hazelnut trees are relatively easy to grow and begin producing nuts within 4-6 years of being planted. The nuts themselves are ...

PETERS CREEK — The little tree in Josh Smith’s yard at the ... He doesn’t expect Alaska to start outpacing Oregon, the country’s major hazelnut producer, anytime soon.

As in many places around the world, the country's ability to grow hazelnut trees and shrubs is under threat from environmental factors. A changing climate is affecting the crop here, leading to ...

Long-lived, perennial crops — like hazelnuts, which can grow as a shrub or tree — don’t need to be planted year after year, which offers many environmental benefits. Now he hardly sees any ...

“We are very excited about perennial farming, which means tree crops, things that you plant once and they grow in every year.” Water said the one acre of hazelnut trees they have planted so ...

Hazelnut growers in some districts have faced challenges in maintaining chill hours during winter months. This has led to reduced yields and in some cases, no fruiting at all. A chill hour is the ...

To test whether this effect can be seen in archaeological samples, the scientists gathered hazelnuts from trees growing in varying light levels at three locations in southern Sweden, and analyzed ...