Another portion of the filbert orchards at Dorris Ranch in Springfield has been removed ahead of a replacement of those trees with a species more resistant to fungal infection. Dorris Ranch reopened ...

Eastern filbert blight (EFB), caused by the fungus Anisogramma anomala, remains one of the primary challenges for hazelnut cultivation, particularly affecting European hazelnut (Corylus avellana) ...

With the price of hazelnuts going ever higher, it is time to grow your own. There are even new Oregon State University-bred cultivars that are immune to Eastern filbert blight, a disease that has ...

Carefully developed breeds are overpowering Eastern filbert blight, which had threatened to crush the U.S. hazelnut industry. Growing Resistance, Oregon Hazelnuts Battle Blight Although Oregon is ...

Oregon State University researchers are working to develop hazelnut trees that are resistant to Eastern filbert blight, which nearly collapsed the industry a few years ago. Oregon State University ...

The 8,000 hazelnut trees that once stood on Agassiz’s Canadian Hazelnut farm have been reduced to mulch after they were infected with Eastern Filbert Blight, a fungus that has made its way north from ...