Wilco Farmers Cooperative has filed a notice with the state that it could lay off as many as 70 people at the cooperative-owned Hazelnut Growers of Oregon and close the business by the end of the year ...

LEBANON, Ore. — Hazelnuts are already a familiar ingredient in U.S. kitchens but Robert Waterhouse wants to expand their culinary horizons by introducing more Americans to oil extracted from them.

Wilco will sell its Hazelnut Growers of Oregon processing business, eight years after the cooperatives merged in what was billed as a mutually beneficial partnership. Unless a buyer is found for HGO, ...