The first car arrives over two hours before the hulling station officially opens in Jeffersonville, Kentucky. By the time that Renee Zaharie appears and starts the hulling machine, four more vehicles ...

Peggy Mersmann-Laptad stays busy these days doing what her grandfather did years ago at the same farm north of Lawrence: harvesting and hulling walnuts. Peggy Mersmann-Laptad uses a wire roller to ...

The annual Black Walnut Harvest has been going on across the Midwest since October 1. But the pace for the first three weeks ...

Sixteen stations that buy black walnuts in the Joplin area are among 262 throughout the Midwest officially opening for business today. Hulling machines are prepared and ready, with starting prices for ...

Joe Hietter yanked the cord of a small gas engine and started dumping buckets and barrels of wild black walnuts onto a conveyor, which spilled the green and black balls into the maw of a creaking ...

Whether it’s picking up a little extra cash for Christmas, dropping a few kernels in the Halloween fudge or buying millions of pounds for commercial processing, October is harvest time for black ...

Just before daybreak, a line of trucks idles in pea soup fog outside the gates of Hammons Products Co. on 105 Hammons Drive. At 7 a.m., truck drivers carrying ping pong-size black walnuts in the shell ...

Episode 13 of the "South Bend Time Machine" podcast takes listeners back to the 19th century, when inventor John Comley Birdsell moved to town and founded a major factory making clover hulling ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Joe Lenau, 60, puts a bag full of hulled black walnuts on to a scale on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, at Beaufort Ag Supply in Beaufort ...