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Completed

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October 09, 2026 at 08:17 PM

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October 09, 2026 at 08:17 PM

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1 minute

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Black Walnut Trees Could Soon Offer Farmers a New Revenue Stream Beyond Timber

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  "transcript": "Missouri is already the black walnut capital of the country, but usually that's because of the timber. But a 30-year research project at the University of Missouri is putting the spotlight back on the nuts, and it could help open a new option for farmers. Here's a look at what's growing at Mizzou. So where we're standing right now, how old are these trees? 30 years old. So they were planted in 1996, and it's our first repository. A stroll through this orchard and you're stepping across a genetic collection that's a treasure trove for years of research. In this case, it's because the kernels are really high, um, mass and percentage related to the wild type Eastern black walnut species. Research is revealing not just how these trees act, but traits these nuts produce. So how thick is the shell? How much does the shell weigh? What percentage is the kernel? How valuable is the kernel to market? How big is the kernel? All those things come together to, um, make recommendations for growers. What you see here is research rooted 30 miles from the University of Missouri campus. The whole farm is 600 acres. Nestled on the bluff of the Missouri River. We have over 100 acres of, uh, active research plots here. And if you had to guess how many trees, what would you say? North of 15,000 between our repositories and our breeding populations. From chestnuts to hazelnuts and pecans to the Eastern black walnuts you see here, it's all part of the MU Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Farm. We're standing in front of the black walnut trees now. I know that they're over 30 years old. But what makes this research so unique? It's unique because these are like chance seedling collections that occurred usually in on-farm environments that were collected over the 20th century by grower association members for the reason of high kernel per- uh, high kernel percentage and high kernel mass. So the wild type of Eastern black walnut is typically in the 6 to 14 percent. Uh, these go 20 up into mid-30s as far as kernel percentage in the shell. So by the from the time that you plant the seedling, how long does it take to be able to harvest a crop? So for Hickman specifically, not the species as a whole, it could be as low as five years from collecting, uh, from planting to collecting that seed or starting a new propagate. So what's typical timeline? Typical could be 10 plus years. Black walnut trees are typically known for the high-value timber. In fact, the Show-Me State accounts for about 20% of all native range black walnut trees in the US. That's more than anywhere else globally and twice as many as the second-ranked state. But with these nut-bearing trees producing fruit in a much shorter time span than traditional black walnut trees, it could be an attractive option for landowners looking to diversify. That's like a a perfect application for this. Um, if you're going to adopt something like Eastern black walnut, you're probably not going to adopt it from fence row to fence row, but it could be a real nice complement, especially on bottomland acreage that could be more prone to flooding because they can be a bottomland species, kind of like pecans. So you do think that this will kind of revive and put the focus back on the the nut part of the black walnut trees? Um, or more of an and. It's certainly not going to replace attention on the uh, timber value, and you might be able to have a dual-purpose orchard with the right kind of management where, you know, at the end of that orchard's life, you could still derive timber value out of it, but along the way, you have a crop from the nuts. But the potential here seems to just now be blossoming. If we were to try to standardize the industry and create a new economic, um, option for farmers, um, we could displace that supply with orchards, and it would be about 5,000 acres. So is that the goal? That's the first goal, uh, and we just started releasing cultivars from our program, which is, you know, 30 years old, uh, to support that adoption. For research that's more of a marathon than a sprint, what they've uncovered so far holds real potential. We're, um, 24 years into planting progeny, um, and evaluating them, you know, from the time that the the first one was planted. Um, and we'll need to keep pushing forward for a few decades to fully realize the the potential of the species. Well, researchers aren't the only ones getting a taste of this work. The Center for Agroforestry hosts the Missouri Chestnut Festival at the research farm every year. It's a free event where visitors can sample chestnuts prepared a variety of ways and try pawpaw ice cream. It's a way for the public to see what agroforestry looks like on the ground, and it's actually happening this weekend there. 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