Episode 218 - Hazelnuts   addthis
This region is home to 99 percent of America’s Hazelnut production. Working with agents from Oregon State University’s extension service and talking with growers, Dick learned enough to keep his twenty-five acres of hazelnuts in production.

 

  

Nut News
Sales of nuts including hazelnuts have become a multi billion dollar business - thanks in part to the popularity of high protein diets. Recent health news that nuts provide antioxidants along with unsaturated fats has given them a boost on the American snack food stage.

Links
www.oregonhazelnuts.org

Oregon Farm Bureau
Oregon Department of Agriculture

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The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture, Farm Credit, and the United Soybean Board make presentation of America's Heartland possible.
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