Jan 10, 2017 | Environment, General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business
Climate change is altering Morocco’s landscape and creating serious challenges for the agricultural sector. In the Al Haouz province, resilient farmers took steps to adapt, and they have a burgeoning olive industry to show for it. Moroccan Farmers Combat Climate...
Jan 10, 2017 | Environment, International News/Trends, Research
An invasive beetle responsible for wiping out huge tracts of the nation’s ash population also has a taste for olive trees, researchers at Wright State University have learned. Though the emerald ash borer is not an immediate threat to domestic orchards or groves...
Jan 10, 2017 | Australia, Environment, Olive business
Western Australian olive producers are holding their breath for dry weather for the next three months, after last season’s weather resulted in one of the worst crops in about two decades.
Dec 23, 2016 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
A UNESCO-protected olive grove of located in Puglia, Italy is standing in the way of proposed Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project valued at over $45 million. This pipeline would transport gas from central Asia to the millions of homes in various regions in the...
Dec 23, 2016 | Australia, Environment
Two major Western Australian olive farmers have been forced to cull close to 7,000 adult olive trees that have been infested by the deadly Olive Lace Bug (Froggattia Olivinia) in an outbreak that has been officially declared endemic to the area. Australian Farms Face...
Sep 16, 2016 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business
A cruel year for local crops, 2016 showed no kindness to the olive industry, with one producer having seen his harvest drop by more than four-fifths. And while last year, the small family business was inundated with requests to press the olives of other growers, only...
