Juggling two crops in the same field isn’t for the faint of heart, particularly when one is as enduring and expensive to establish as hazelnuts. Yet farmers planting hazelnuts have a powerful ...

AURORA, Ore. — Maryclair Birkemeier and David Stehman were married on a sunny day under a canopy of orderly hazelnut trees at Meridian Orchards in 2010, simultaneously becoming partners in life and in ...

Eastern filbert blight, a fungal pathogen that kills hazelnut trees, first made its way to the Northwest in the 1960s. Since then, farmers have managed the fungus by pruning infected trees and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – In the days leading up to Valentine’s Day 2021, Loren Birkemeier, a Canby hazelnut grower and farm owner and operator, said he was expecting a bit of an ice storm. What he wasn ...

Dan and JoAnn Keeley’s farming operation outside St. Paul had a banner year in 2014. The same year Dan retired from his job as a civil engineer for Marion County, the farm had a huge harvest: more ...