Although the total amount of cultivated farmland in Oregon is shrinking, filbert acreage is booming.  By Khushboo ...

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% ...

The question: Why does the Oregon state nut have two names? We have the answer. But first, a little history. The background: Filbert trees and the name filbert are said to have been introduced into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oregon's history with filberts started in 1892 when George Dorris and his wife Lulu bought 250 acres of fertile land along the Willamette River and dedicated their lives to farming. After ...

This is part of a weekly series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Why does the Oregon state nut have two names? We have the answer. But first, a little ...

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 ...