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 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 ...

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 ...

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, Missouri. Lenard Dierking, 60, at left, a worker at the business, ...

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 ...

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 ...

"You'll wear that off, you'll not wash it off," he cautioned as he stood in front of the walnut hulling machine at Bill's Auto Salvage Yard, where 62-year-old Bill Ward sells auto parts and mini ...