Hazelnuts sustain family businesses, and star in recipes, in the Langhe region of Piedmont, Italy, where the rolling hills are covered with hazelnut trees. "The climate here is perfect for them," said ...

A major realignment in the market for Oregon hazelnuts is bringing about the closure of a processor geared toward the sales of in-shell varieties to China. While the Firestone Processing Co.’s ...

These are not festive days for several producers of hazelnuts, Oregon's state nut and one of its top crops. The Food and Drug Administration found salmonella in a processing plant in Newberg, ...

Bruce Chapin started farming when he got out of college in 1973. He’s the third generation on the Willamette Valley farm near Salem, Ore. His father, Jack, planted a cherry orchard in 1960 and Bruce ...