ALBANY, Ore. — Hazelnuts — also called filberts — take center stage in the latest Fresh From Oregon segment. According to Oregon State University, the entire state produces more than 65,000 tons each ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Another popular Oregon agricultural harvest is underway — it’s hazelnut time! The trees hazelnuts grow on are ideally suited to Oregon’s climate, according to experts.

DONALD, Ore. — The hazelnut is Oregon's state nut for a reason. It plays a big role in the state’s economy, bringing in more than $250 million every year. Now Oregon's brand new hazelnut processing ...

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% ...

Dan and JoAnn Keeley’s farming operation outside St. Paul, Oregon, had a banner year in 2014. The same year Dan retired from his job as a civil engineer for Marion County, the farm had a huge harvest: ...

Italian company Ferrero, one of the largest makers of sweets in the world, has given Oregon State University more than $500,000 for hazelnut research since 2020. Ferrero makes the chocolate-hazelnut ...

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 ...

Youthful, blight-resistant Jefferson trees are the heroes of this fall’s Willamette Valley hazelnut season, boosting Oregon’s crop yield. The harvest started early, at the end of a hot, dry August but ...