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% ...

CANTON, Minn. - A slow, lumbering machine built to harvest blueberries is expected to greatly speed up development of commercial farming of hazelnuts throughout the upper Midwest. Sue Wiegerefe and ...

From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over a 1-year-old hazelnut bush. "This makes me really happy," he said, holding a catkin — a cluster of pollen ...

BUTTERFIELD, Minn. -- In 2004, Norm Penner started planting hazelnut bushes on his farm in Butterfield. While the project has had challenges, Penner thinks there's still hope for hazelnuts with the ...