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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…
Award winning Australian olive oil manufacturer Cobram Estate in February will extend its reach into the competitive US market, which it says suffers a dearth of high quality, extra virgin olive oils.
URGENT – PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE MODERN HORTICULTURAL AWARD THAT MAY AFFECT YOUR BUSINESS. SURVEY TO BE COMPLETED BY 31ST JANUARY 2016. Dear Members, Most of you will be aware of the “Modern Horticultural Award” and how it relates to the olive industry. What you might not know is that Unions have submitted various claims…
A debate between producers and agricultural organisations and the Italian government is raging over a draft legislative decree regarding sanctions for counterfeiting of olive oil and its origin (specified by the Regulation of the European Union 29/2012) that is being reviewed by the Agriculture and Justice Committees of the Chamber of Deputies.
These last couple of months have been a roller coaster of speculation regarding Spain’s current and coming year of olive oil production. Average production levels, low reserves, atypical weather, and inexplicably low prices have all contributed to the uncertainty. Now, however, experts say that Spain’s olive oil market should stabilise come harvest end.
Grapes might get all the attention, the press, the movies and musicals, and the interest of tourists, but in the Sonoma Valley, there’s another fruit that deserves a little love too. That would be the olive.
An overwhelming majority of parents insist on healthy products when buying food for their children, an international study has found. There’s a marketing avenue for EVOO here, surely …
The Prosecutor of Lecce, Cataldo Motta, with public prosecutors Elsa Valeria Mignone and Roberta Licci, issued an urgent seizure order, executed today by the State Forestry Corps, to prevent the further felling of olive trees ordered by the EU to combat the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Salento.
The European Commission has sent Italy a letter as the first step of an infraction procedure, since “Italy is not fully respecting the obligations in the plan to eradicate Xylella,” Enrico Brivio, the European Commission spokesman for health and food safety, said. Look for our update on the Xylella fastiodosa outbreak and accompanying feature on…
Rajneesh Bhasin, the president of the Indian Olive Association and managing director of Borges India, said there is a growing interest among his country’s 1.25 billion people in the health benefits of olive oil and a trend away from the high-heat techniques that characterise traditional Indian cooking.