Hazelnuts

Overview

Oregon grows 99 percent of the U.S. hazelnut crop. In 2012, the state's production fell to 34,700 tons of hazelnuts, 1 percent less than the previous year. The value of the crop was $63.4 million, a 29 percent drop from 2011. (NASS 2013)

Turkey still dominates the world hazelnut industry, generally supplying 80 percent of the world's total. The European Union ranks second, producing about 13 percent, and the United States third, producing about 7 percent (FAS 2012).  April 2013 ...  Hazelnuts
 

Marketing

• Fruit and Tree Nuts, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA.
• Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS), Foreign Ag Service (FAS), USDA.
• Hazelnut Crop Report, Oregon Field Office, National Ag Statistical Service (NASS), USDA.
• Hazelnut Growers of Oregon, Cornelius, Oregon - This cooperative is owned by 140 Oregon hazelnut growers. It handles approximately 30 percent of the Oregon hazelnuts harvested each year, producing produces numerous hazelnut food products including hazelnut butter, sweet hazelnut paste, dry roasted hazelnuts and the most important product, in-shell hazelnuts.
• Hazelnut Marketing Orders, Fruit and Vegetable Programs, Agricultural Marketing Service, USDA.
• Hazelnut or Filbert—Two Names for the Same Nut, Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook, ERS, USDA, 2007.
• Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium; Arbor Day Foundation, Oregon State University, Rutgers University and University of Nebraska - This four-member consortium is working to develop hybrid hazelnuts into a sustainable crop for much of the United States and southern Canada.
• International Tree Nut Council (INC) - The INC's mission is to endorse activities that provide its membership new opportunities for increasing global consumption of almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts.
• Noncitrus Fruits & Nuts, NASS, USDA, 2013.
• Orchard Economics: The Costs and Returns of Establishing and Producing Hazelnuts in the Willamette Valley, Oregon State University Extension Service, 2008.
• Oregon Hazelnuts
• Society of Ontario Nut Growers - Good introduction to hazelnuts in general.
• Tree Nuts: World Markets & Trade, FAS, USDA.
• Upper Midwest Hazelnut Initiative - An effort by organizations in Wisconsin and Minnesota to support the emerging hazelnut industry in the Upper Midwest through targeted research and development activities.

Production

• 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 Extension, 2009 - Provides information on breeding and growing hazelnuts for nut production.
• The Eastern Filbert Blight Help Page, Oregon State University.
• Enterprise Budget: Hazelnut, Willamette Valley Region; Oregon State University; 2008.
• Growing Hazelnuts for Biofuel Production, eXtension, 2012.
• Hazelnut and walnut production, Centre for Alternative Land Use, Bangor University, UK, 2006.
• Hazelnut Production, Question of the Week, ATTRA, NCAT, 2007.
• Hazelnut Research Field, Arbor Day Farm, Nebraska City, Nebraska - Description of the hazelnut planting.
• Hazelnuts, Oregon State University Extension Service.
• Hazelnuts, Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. (GDV), Berlin, Germany - Available in English.
• Nut Growers Handbook, Oregon State University.
• The Planting, Growing & Cultivation of Hazelnut Trees in Australia, Hazelnut Nursery Propagators, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Want to learn patience? Grow hazelnuts, Minnesota Public Radio, 2003.
• Wild Hollow Hazelnuts, Ashland, Wisconsin - This blog describes the production of hazelnuts on a Wisconsin nut farm.

Businesses/Case Studies

• Hazelnut Hill, Corvallis, Oregon - Rob and Sally Hilles operate a hazelnut orchard, direct-marketing candy operation and hazelnut tree nursery operation on a 225-acre farm planted to 35,000 trees.

Links checked April 2012.