hazelnuts for sale 25 july 17

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hazelnuts for sale
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Description

• Hazelnuts do not generally need to be toasted
  indeed, Kentish cobnuts are still sold fresh.
  Presumably toasting was done to make them more
  digestible for children. Toasting the nuts was
  thought to increase how long they would keep, and
  historically, they have been a useful food for
  mariners because they keep well.
• Well documented throughout history, hazel has
  been grown in coppices for use in wattle and
  daub buildings and in hedges. The Romans
  cultivated hazelnuts, including in Britain,
  although no evidence indicates they spread
  specific cultivars. Cultivated varieties have
  been grown since at least the sixteenth century,
  with a great increase in varieties during the
  nineteenth century. In particular, the first
  widespread cultivar, the 'Kentish Cobnut', was
  introduced in 1830.
• The traditional method to increase nut production
  is called 'butting', which involves prompting
  more of the trees' energy to go into flower bud
  production, by snapping, but not breaking off,
  the tips of the new year shoots' six or seven
  leaf groups from the join with the trunk or
  branch, at the end of the growing season The
  traditional term for an area of cultivated
  hazelnuts is a plat.

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Harvesting

• The many cultivars of the hazel include
  'Atababa', 'Barcelona', 'Butler', 'Casina',
  'Clark', 'Cosford', 'Daviana', 'Delle Langhe',
  'England', 'Ennis', 'Fillbert', 'Halls Giant',
  'Jemtegaard', 'Kent Cob', 'Lewis', 'Tokolyi',
  'Tonda Gentile', 'Tonda di Giffoni', 'Tonda
  Romana', 'Wanliss Pride', and 'Willamette'.4 Som
  e of these are grown for specific qualities of
  the nut, including large nut size and early and
  latefruiting cultivars, whereas others are grown
  as pollinators. The majority of commercial
  hazelnuts are propagated from root
  sprouts.4Some cultivars are of hybrid origin
  between common hazel and filbert.5 One cultivar
  grown in Washington, the 'DuChilly', has an
  elongated appearance, a thinner and less bitter
  skin, and a distinctly sweeter flavor than other
  varieties
• Hazelnuts are harvested annually in mid-autumn.
  As autumn comes to a close, the trees drop their
  nuts and leaves. Most commercial growers wait for
  the nuts to drop on their own, rather than using
  equipment to shake them from the tree. The
  harvesting of hazelnuts is performed either by
  hand or, by manual or mechanical raking of fallen
  nuts.
• Four primary pieces of equipment are used in
  commercial harvesting the sweeper, the
  harvester, the nut cart, and the forklift. The
  sweeper moves the nuts into the center of the
  rows, the harvester lifts and separates the nuts
  from any debris (i.e. twigs and leaves), the nut
  cart holds the nuts picked up by the harvester,
  and the forklift brings a tote to offload the
  nuts from the nut cart and then, stacks the totes
  to be shipped to the processor (nut dryer).

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• The sweeper is a low-to-the-ground machine that
  makes two passes in each tree row. It has a 2 m
  (6 ft 7 in) belt attached to the front that
  rotates to sweep leaves, nuts, and small twigs
  from left to right, depositing the material in
  the center of the row as it drives forward. On
  the rear of the sweeper is a powerful blower to
  blow material left into the adjacent row with air
  speeds up to 90 m/s (300 ft/s). Careful grooming
  during the year and patient blowing at harvest
  may eliminate the need for hand raking around the
  trunk of the tree, where nuts may accumulate. The
  sweeper prepares a single center row of nuts
  narrow enough for the harvesting tractor to drive
  over without driving on the center row. It is
  best to sweep only a few rows ahead of the
  harvesters at any given time, to prevent the
  tractor that drives the harvester from crushing
  the nuts that may still be falling from the
  trees. Hazelnut orchards may be harvested up to
  three times during the harvest season, depending
  on the quantity of nuts in the trees and the rate
  of nut drop as a result of weather.
• Production of hazelnuts in 2014ountryProductionth
  ousands of tonnes Turkey450.0 Italy75.5 Georgia37.
  4 United States32.7 Azerbaijan29.8World713.5The
  harvester is a slow-moving machine pushed by a
  tractor, which lifts the material off the ground
  and separates the nuts from the leaves, empty
  husks, and twigs. As the harvester drives over
  the rows, a rotating cylinder with hundreds of
  tines, rakes the material onto a belt. The belt
  takes the material over a blower and under a
  powerful vacuum that sucks any lightweight soil
  and leaves from the nuts, and discharges them
  into the orchard. The remaining nuts are conveyed
  into a nut cart that is pulled behind the
  harvester. Once a tote is filled with nuts, the
  forklift hauls away the full totes and bring
  empty ones back to the harvester to maximize the
  harvester's time.

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