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Why the food sector attracts organised crime groups, protecting authentic Italian products and an added company to the project were highlights of the Food Integrity conference last week.
Leading members of the functional foods, supplements and healthy nutrition industry gathered in Geneva to celebrate huge successes … and find out who won out in the battle to become a winner of the NutriIngredients Awards 2017. Go to the Ingredient of The Year – Heart Health winner; and read more about the opportunities for…
Waste from the olive oil industry like olive stone ash, ground olive stones, and sludge from pomace oil extraction can be used as effective secondary raw materials in the making of clay bricks and cement paste. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/olive-waste-can-used-make-effective-building-materials/57111
Over the last decade, Portugal has quadrupled its production of olive oil and tripled its volume of exports. The figures represent a radical shift in the country’s olive oil industry, effectively bringing an end to its olive oil imports and making it the fourth-largest exporter of the liquid gold. https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-business/portugals-skyrocketing-olive-oil-industry/56900?utm_source=Olive+Oil+Times&utm_campaign=a833b382a9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfd25322ac-a833b382a9-213160813
Entries are now open for the spring season of the 2017 Sydney Royal Fine Food Show, which includes the Olive Oil categories. Sydney Royal medals provide both peer recognition and substantial marketing benefits, with the accolades recognised by consumers and across retail and food service industries. The 2016 Spring Sydney Royal Fine Food competition…
All ONZ grower members should now have received Certification documentation and submissions are now open. Don’t miss the opportunity to have your oil wear the trusted OliveMark quality guarantee. Documentation is also available here, along with more information on ONZ Certification.
Australia is on track to adopt some of the most sophisticated plant pest surveillance technologies in the world after Hort Innovation Australia secured a Federal Government grant and co-investor funding to deliver a $21M plant biosecurity push.
As part of Hort Innovation’s Leadership Fund program, it has it has joined forces with the Churchill Trust to offer Fellowships to drive innovation and transformation within Australia’s horticulture industry. Churchill Fellowships have an average value of $26,000, and enable Australians to travel the world to access knowledge not readily available locally. If you have…
ABARES has developed a labour survey to identify the amount and type of labour used on farms, as well as recruitment experiences and expectations of farmers when hiring in the years ahead. Read more here.
There may be 15,000 kilometres separating Italy and Charleville, but it was a visit to the European country which inspired the outback Queensland’s only commercial olive operation. Karen and Bill McLennan purchased Sommariva, in 1993 — a 10,000-hectare property 38 kilometres east of Charleville, in south west Queensland.