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 ...

Officials with Hammons Products Company remind Four State residents of the arrival of Black Walnut Harvest season.

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four-year-old Collin Wilkie made sure that every last walnut in the bed of his parents’ pickup was thrown into the hopper that conveyed the walnuts to the hulling machine. “He’s a good helper,” said ...

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 ...

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 ...