Pacific Nut Producer Magazine

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  • Hazelnut Grower Shares Initial Experience with Cover Crops

    Orchard floor management has been a longtime priority for hazelnut growers as well as other tree nut growers that mechanically harvest their nuts after dropping to the ground.  Smooth, level, bare, and debris-free have been the long-desired qualities for the orchard floor. The tide is turning though as growers are taking a greater interest in improving soil health and structure with cover crops. Pacific Nut Producer Editor Matthew Malcolm met with Oregon hazelnut grower Matt Miller as he shares his initial experience in transitioning his orchards to the use of cover crops.  Watch this brief interview and stay current on hazelnut industry news by reading your monthly issue of Pacific Nut Producer Magazine.

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  • Hazelnut Grower Keeps Nuts Out of the Mud by Cover Cropping

    Like many tree nut commodities, hazelnuts are harvested from the orchard floor after dropping from the trees; however, Oregon growers tend to get more early fall rain events than their California nut grower neighbors. Harvest can get pretty muddy, adding extra processing costs to clean up the crop. The rains came again last year, impacting the later harvested varieties; however, harvest remained pretty clean for hazelnut grower Kent Burkholder, who believes cover cropping made all the difference. Watch his brief interview with Pacific Nut Producer Editor Matthew Malcolm, and read his full story HERE.

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