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)...
Aug 31, 2015 | Environment, International News/Trends
Next time you drizzle olive oil on your salad, give a thought to the larvae of the olive fly, which love olives as much as you do. Every year in Catalonia, Spain, farmers have to fight these pests so they don’t ruin the year’s crop. The customary method is to spray...
Aug 7, 2015 | Environment, International News/Trends, Olive business
Back in May, in an eye-opening story, The New York Times offered a reality check regarding the West Coast’s severe water shortage. In “Your Contribution to the California Drought,” reporters Larry Buchanan, Josh Keller, and Haeyoun Park laid down the facts: it takes...