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New 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…
The 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…
The 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…
The 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…
More 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…
The 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…
The 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…
More 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…
The 2014 AOA National Conference and Trade Exhibition will be held in Newcastle from 17-19 September. The 17th will be a Field Day in the Hunter Valley, followed by the…
What began as outrage over phone bugging accusations has now escalated to the point that Indonesia revealed it was turning away from Australian food imports.