Researchers are developing hybrid hazelnuts for biofuel, animal feed. Aug. 13, 2010— -- If a national research group has its way, U.S. farmers will soon add a new crop to their fields ...

The hybrid hazelnuts also have been used in salad oil and skin-care products, he said, and in nut butters similar to Nutella, the brand name of the sweetened hazelnut and cocoa spread manufactured ...

They teamed up in 2007 to create the Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative — funding research to breed and clone hybrid hazelnuts and scale up a market to make them financially feasible ...

Cureton said there's a list of around 800 growers across Minnesota and Wisconsin that have expressed interest in hybrid hazelnut cultivars that UMHDI research is currently looking into.

From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over a 1-year-old hazelnut bush. "This makes me really happy," he said, holding a catkin -- a cluster of ...

“We have been trying to breed hazelnuts in the East for 100 years, but the research didn’t go very far because it had no industry to support it, and once the breeder died, it would sputter out.” Since ...

PINE RIVER, Minn. — A central Minnesota organization is looking for landowners interested in planting hybrid hazelnuts. Happy Dancing Turtle, in Pine River, is hosting an upcoming event where ...

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. — Might hazelnuts one day be a third crop in Minnesota? Hazelnut researcher has more questions than answers - Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports ...

Hazelnuts and chestnuts aren't new to the U.S., but they're not as ubiquitous as peanuts. One farmer taking a lead role in the Wisconsin hazelnut -- and chestnut -- industry is Mark L. Shepard.

The Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Initiative is looking to make growing and selling hazelnuts a reality for farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin. SUBSCRIBE NOW 3 months/99¢ a month Show Search.