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% ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fortunes are continuing to improve for Oregon’s hazelnut industry, with the 2025 crop guaranteed to fetch at least 40% more than last year’s minimum price. Farmers will earn a minimum of between $1.05 ...

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 ...

Third-generation Pasco orchard family has planted a new cherry system, replaced all apples with stone fruit and harvested ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

Marissa Lane-Massee, a research assistant at the University of Oregon and a fourth-generation hazelnut farmer, is researching and developing a cover crop seed mix to bring climate resilience to ...