One of the world's leaders in chestnut production is at risk of experiencing heavy losses as extreme weather conditions batter its vital crop-growing regions. Reuters reported that excessive heat ...

The resolution introducing agronomic measures for the growing and production recovery of plants affected by chestnut gall wasp has been approved. The pest that has been affecting all chestnut ...

The past year has been full of challenges and important progress for ESF’s American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project. As most of you know, project co-founders Dr. William Powell and Dr.

Nowadays, the United States accounts for less than 1% of the world’s chestnut production, according to the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center. We import more than 3,000 metric tons of ...

United States chestnut production is less than 1 percent of total world production, with 919 farms producing chestnuts on more than 3,700 acres. Currently, New York is not listed among the top five ...

“Chestnuts give you a high return on investment and a way for a small farm to support itself over a period of time.” Cultivation of chestnut trees for nut production in the U.S. nearly doubled between ...

The village used to produce around 410 tons of chestnuts a year. But production nosedived by around 75 percent in recent years due to a lack of successors in chestnut farming families and other ...