Hello! The Clipper Podcast is back! Again we will bring you the best from the world of healthy natural food and snacks directly to your ears. The magazine took a little siesta of nearly three years and is coming back fresher than ever before. This time with amazing stories from ANUGA including a new nut, yes you heard that right….…courageous entrepreneurs from Ukraine who are want to turn backyard walnut trees into big business and…a Swiss company that starts using cocoa in a way you have not heard before….All this coming up October 18 in the Clipper Podcast. We wish you a happy day!

Dear listeners, before I start I just want to thank the brave people that have kept our food coming to the table. Consumers are not aware of the extra efforts and the risks many are taking every day to make sure the supply chain is working. With the Clipper Magazine and our podcast and our reporting we want to help you be successful in the future. Our home countries Switzerland and Germany have reopened their economies –we wish our friends and partners all over the world that you stay safe and your business is continuing to work and grow . Welcome to the Clipper Podcast. I had an interesting conversation with Santiago Tembras from Gastaldi in Argentina. He was giving a very good global view on the peanut business, the challenges of being a producer and exporter from Argentina. I learned a lot and I hope you do as well.

This is the Clipper Podcast, the newest addition to our journalism in the nuts and dried fruit industry. You can of course subscribe to the magazine and the smartphone edition at agropress.com. You can subscribe to the Podcast at Apple, Google and Spotify – most importantly you can be part of the conversation as a sponsor and communicate to our more than 48,000 readers, listeners, followers and friends in 89 countries. I hope to see and hear you soon, greetings from Switzerland!

Welcome to Edition Number 10 of the Clipper Podcast for nuts and dried fruit. Interesting times and interesting topics. For our readers and our listeners we are currently preparing stories on how to do business in a very special situation – from online marketing to distancing in post-harvest and of course the changing patterns of consumption. First –

the topic in our magazine which you can subscribe to at agropress.com - and you can sponsor our podcast which is now heard by an audience of more than 12,00 people all over the world, very important in a time without trade shows. Thank you, greetings from let us talk about hazelnuts. Did you know that the US is a major hazelnut exporter to China – how much do you now about hazelnut production in the US anyway? If you don’t, no problem, because I talked to Troy Johnson who is an expert, a consultant and a trader who is helping us understand hazelnuts from Oregon.

In Turkey the industry is very fragmented with an estimated 410,000 hazelnut producers. Can you tell me a bit about the structure of the business in Oregon?

Whenever I hear the words US China and agriculture I think about trade embargos and tariffs – maybe I am wrong. How are hazelnuts from the US dealing with it?

To many people in the nut business this sounds surprising, the fact that selling inshell to China from the US is so important instead of getting higher margins through processing and selling locally.

Water seems to be a growing concern for nut producers all over the world. How is the situation for Oregon hazelnut producers?

But you are upbeat about the prospects for the future.

Thank you for listening, I hope you learned a lot about Oregon hazelnuts. There is more on Switzerland and talk soon!