Overview

Hazelnuts (Corylus avellana), or filberts, originated in the Mediterranean region from Turkey to Spain. They have been part of the human diet for 5,000 years. At various times during those years, the nuts were thought to cure everything from baldness to stomach aches.

Turkey still dominates the hazelnut industry, generally producing about 70 percent of the world's total. Italy ranks second, producing about 10 percent, and the United States third, producing about 5 percent, of the world's total.

Oregon grows 99 percent of the U.S. hazelnut crop. In 2007 the state produced 36 thousand tons of hazelnuts. The value of that year's crop was $65.5 million, the highest on record.  March 2008 . . . Hazelnuts

Other Links

• 2007 Hazelnut Crop Forecast Down 23 Percent , NASS, USDA, 2007.
• Badgersett Research Corporation - Site operated by a breeder working to develop a hybrid American hazelnut bush with good nut characteristics as well as EFB resistance.
• Commercial Hazelnuts in Minnesota, University of Minnesota, 2000.
• The Eastern Filbert Blight Help Page, Oregon State University.
• Fruit and Tree Nuts, Economic Research Service, USDA.
• Hazelnut, Oregon Agricultural Enterprise Budget, Oregon State University.
• Hazelnuts, Oregon State University Extension Service, 2001.
• Hazelnut and walnut production, Centre for Alternative Land Use, Bangor University, U.K., 2006.
• Hazelnuts, Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. (GDV), Berlin, Germany.
• Hazelnut Council - Represents the world’s leading hazelnut producers, importers and distributors in Turkey and the United States.
• Hazelnut Market Assessment Study, Hazelnut Growers Of Australia, 2003.
• Hazelnut Marketing Orders, Fruit and Vegetable Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), USDA.  
• Hazelnut Research Field, Arbor Day Farm, Nebraska City, Nebraska  - Description of the hazelnut planting at Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska. 
• Hazelnut Situation and Outlook in Selected Countries, FASonline, USDA, 2004.
• International Tree Nut Council
• Noncitrus Fruits and Nuts, 2007 Preliminary Summary, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), USDA, January 2008.
• Nut Growers Handbook, Oregon State University, 2006.
• Nutty season for Oregon hazelnut growers, Associated Press, 2006 - Rob and Sally Hilles operate Hazelnut Hill near Corvallis, Oregon. Their business includes a hazelnut orchard, direct-marketing candy operation and hazelnut tree nursery operation on a 225-acre farm planted to 35,000 trees. Hazelnut Hill is known for being on the cutting edge of value-added domestic marketing, using hazelnuts as ingredients in sweets, bakery products and snack mixes, and for a quality product.
• Oregon and Washington Hazelnuts, Marketing Orders, Fruit and Vegetable Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), USDA.
• Oregon Hazelnuts
• The Planting, Growing & Cultivation of Hazelnut Trees in Australia, Hazelnut Nursery Propagators, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Society of Ontario Nut Growers - Good introduction to hazelnuts in general. 
• U.S. hazelnut growers find home market a tough nut to crack, Seattle Times, 2005.
• Want to learn patience? Grow hazelnuts, Minnesota Public Radio, 2003.