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With foreign investment in Australian agriculture being among the most heated political issues in the country at the moment, new figures released by the Australia Bureau of Statistics might come…
… Extra virgin olive oil. The olive oil market is fraught with dodgy labelling. Actual ‘extra virgin’ olive oil means the oil has been squeezed from the fruit whereas all…
This year’s national industry event will be held in from September 17-19 at the Mercure Resort in the Hunter Valley, NSW, and will also include the inaugural levy payers meeting.…
This month the organisations Nutrition Australia and the Australian Olive Association are co-hosting a series of free seminars on the health benefits of consuming extra virgin olive oil. The events…
Border olive growers are harvesting their crops later this season. A heatwave at the start of the year and unseasonably warm weather has pushed the harvest back several weeks. But…
In its annual overview for the 2014 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory, the AOA estimates 2013 domestic olive oil production at 19 million litres, following a reduced crop…
Tasmanian olive oil producers are looking to share their liquid gold with consumers in China as the boutique industry expands. Plans are in the pipeline to send Tasmanian olive oil…
A flourishing domestic tourist destination has sprung up on the temperate plateau just north of Inverell. Heather Parsons returned to her family’s plot with her husband Les in 1976, and…
Australian premium extra virgin olive oil producer, Boundary Bend Olives has been inducted into the 2014 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame by Victorian Minister for Manufacturing, David Hodgett.
Despite the difficult harvest and the poor economic and trading trends, this has been a very good year for Italian extra virgin olive oil, which raked up a lot of…