Pacific Nut Producer Magazine

Tag: Oregon State Hazelnut Varieties

  • Introducing the New Head of a World-renowned Hazelnut Breeding Program

    Oregon State University has a world renowned hazelnut breeding program, guided and funded by the Pacific Northwest hazelnut industry.  Following the retirement of longtime extension hazelnut breeder Shawn Mehlenbacher, Oregon State University has recently hired a new head of their hazelnut breeding program. Watch this brief video interview as Pacific Nut Producer Editor Matthew Malcolm introduces the new OSU Extension Hazelnut Breeder, Gaurab Bhattarai. Read more in Pacific Nut Producer Magazine. Don’t currently receive the magazine? Subscribe for free at: https://malcolmmedia.com/subscribe/

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  • Oregon State University Releases Exciting New Hazelnut Variety, Thompson

    Oregon State University has a world renowned hazelnut breeding program, and the newest variety, Thompson, has recently been released. Thompson has some impressing features pacific northwest growers will be interested in.  Watch this brief video interview with Shawn Mehlenbacher, head of the OSU hazelnut breeding program to gain the details, and learn more about this new variety at the Nut Growers Society Winter Meeting on Jan. 11 at the Salem Convention Center.

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