Technology/Science
Registrations are now open for the Science Protecting Plant Health conference, being held in Brisbane from 26-28 September 2017. The program includes plenary and concurrent sessions on a wide range…
Hort Innovations is currently seeking submissions for projects to be considered as part of the Pollination Fund. Concept proposals are invited, to be submitted by 30 June 2017. More information…
Plant Health Australia has received funding for a project to improve plant pest surveillance and utilise AUSPestCheck as a national virtual co-ordination centre. The project, Improving Plant Pest Management Through…
This week a cosmetic company, Oliveda, announced their purchase of 800,000 square meters of land housing around 11,000 mature olive trees, boosting the company’s existing portfolio of 10 million square…
A British based company has replaced ocean destroying plastic microbeads with milled olive stones in an environmentally friendly hand wash made from ground olive kernels. You can read more about…
Using both science and anecdote, Patricia B. O’Hara has squeezed new stories out of the humble olive. O’Hara, the Amanda and Lisa Cross Professor of Chemistry, recently published The Chemical…
Precision agriculture and wi-fi connections to save olive trees. This, in short, is the mission carried out by Italian food tech startup called Elaisian, founded by three young entrepreneurs in…
Agricultural tomato wastes could be used to produce valuable functional ingredients as part of a sustainable strategy that uses sustainable extraction methods and contributes to a bio-economy, say researchers. There’s…