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The second annual Harvest Open Day will be held on Sunday, May 8 at Nangkita Olive Grove, Tooperang. Last year’s event was a huge success, attracting visitors across the state to the Fleurieu grove. It’s a jam-packed day of olive education, including olive oil tasting and olive pickling classes, cooking demonstrations; and in the grove,…
Once in a while a pleasing study reminds us that the bland life is not the better (AKA healthier) life. Studies that makes you want to unshackle your confined soul and swim naked in the Sydney Skinny. Oh to have more journos like Sarah … this is great, consumer-friendly info on why fresh local EVOO…
Places are filling fast for Olives New Zealand’s info-packed two day processing seminar, “How Processing Practice Impacts on Quality (e.g. Gold medals) and Quantity”, a must-do event for any producer’s calendar. The intensive course is being held in Auckland on 7-8 April 2016 and will focus on best practice processing for both best quality and…
German consumers and sellers of olive oil have been shocked ever since an independent and highly regarded consumer protection organisation, Stiftung Warentest (SW), had a panel of expert tasters scrutinise 26 varieties of “extra virgin” and found half of them wanting. But not so badly as to be dangerous to health, they maintained, though some…
Under the five-year (2015-2020) plan, the Punjab government would provide two million olive saplings free of cost to the farmers of Potohar region.
There was a spike in olive oil prices in stores in a number of western European markets last year on the back of a fall in supply, caused by factors that are still having an impact on production. Jacques Dupré, insight director for IRI in France and Anne Lefranc, the market research group’s European marketing…
Entries are now open for the fourth JOOP (Japan Olive Oil Prize) Contest, being held in Tokyo in June 2016. Organised by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ICCJ), the contest aims to promote extra virgin olive oils of all origins in Japan through quality improvement and consumer/trade awareness. Entry is open to EVOOs…
Farmer Chris Iacono is proud of what he produces. For Chris it is olive oils, olives, tapenades, sauces and mustards – a collection from his family’s olive grove Bunna Bunoo at Vacy, near Maitland. While preparing some of his produce in the “heart” of the farm – the bottling and storage shed – Chris explained…
European Members of Parliament have endorsed a plan to help the Tunisian economy in the wake of last year’s terrorists attacks by allowing 70,000 tons of duty-free olive oil imports.
In 1976 the wine industry changed forever when a vintage from California was judged superior to its European counterparts. The same thing might be about to happen to olive oil.