Nov 17, 2015 | Environment, EVOO, NZ
New Zealand’s best olive oil this year is a mellow grassy green, thick and fragrant, peppery and charged with subtle fruitiness. It comes from 20-year-old trees grown on a warm north-facing slope overlooking Robinsons Bay. On a cool, settled day in spring, the...
Oct 12, 2015 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business
The effects of drought have altered the quantity and quality of vegetables grown in Central California, but that may change for table olives. FM89’s Ezra David Romero reports. The majority of olive trees are self-pollinating. If there’s a storm during bloom time the...
Oct 12, 2015 | Environment, International News/Trends
The researchers introduced a special arrangement of synthetic nanomembranes as the best system to obtain the highest efficiency in the purification process and to reduce the costs. Studies on purification of olive oil wastewater showed that membrane processes have the...
Oct 12, 2015 | Australia, Environment, Olive Oil News
An organic farmer in Western Australia whose crop was contaminated with genetically modified (GM) canola from a neighbouring farm has lost his court appeal for compensation. Steve Marsh of Kojonup lost organic certification over most of his farmland in 2010 after...
Sep 22, 2015 | Australia, Environment, Olive Oil News, Organic
The Organic Federation of Australia was saddened to see the result of the Supreme Court decision last Thursday, in the Steve Marsh/Baxter GM Contamination case in Western Australia. Steve and Susan are working through their options, and the Organic Federation of...
Sep 22, 2015 | Environment, International News/Trends, Research
A research team from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, has created a cocktail of four different phages (viruses of bacteria) which they used to treat grapevines affected by Pierce’s Disease (PD). The disease is caused by the Xylella fastidiosa (Xf)...
