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The New Zealand olive industry has said goodbye to one of its original members, Morry Vickers, who passed away recently. Vickers was one of the country’s first growers in the…
Read MoreFrom all accounts, flowering is looking excellent across most of New Zealand’s olive-growing regions. While it’s great to see, Olives New Zealand has issued a word of caution to growers…
Read MoreNew Zealand’s prime minister is looking to put his country’s relationship back on track with Thailand after the damaging botulism crisis in August by embarking on a trade visit of…
Read MoreThe Olives New Zealand Focus Grove Project Proposal has now been submitted to the Sustainable Farming Fund for consideration. The three year project aims to identify, trial and measure best…
Read MoreThe 2014 Olives New Zealand Conference and AGM will be held in Wellington on Saturday, 22 March at the Brentwood Hotel, starting at 8.30am with the AGM and finishing at…
Read MoreThe AOA will soon be disseminating a survey regarding the current R&D priorities, aiming to ensure that these are still relevant to levy payers today. CEO Lisa Rowntree said the…
Read MoreMore than 850 investors are in no mood to hold out the olive branch, after losing $39 million in a failed investment scheme in Queensland. Lawyers Slater & Gordon are…
Read MoreThe AOA has also placed a generic “How to Choose an Olive Oil” full page colour advertisement in the December/January edition of the “Super Foods” magazine, which is on the…
Read MoreThe AOA has developed a television commercial featuring leading nutritionist Joanna McMillan, which will air between 1 –21 December. The 30-second commercial will be shown in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth…
Read MoreMore than two-thirds of the total value of Australian crop production comes as the result of protection products, meaning that some of the country’s harvests would be commercially unviable without…
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