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Olives WA talks All About Olives

Olives WA is holding an event all about olives, aimed to stimulate and educate on: growing, harvesting and preserving olives; tasting and producing olive oil and olive leaf tea; the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet; and the use of olive oil and table olives...

2018 Processing Practices Seminar

Olives New Zealand is seeking expressions of interest in a Processing Practices Seminar to be held in 2018. Sufficient numbers are needed prior to Christmas to enable planning to proceed. Register your interest with Gayle Sheridan via...

Vic pests & diseases under discussion

Do you want to find out more about the major pests & diseases of olives and how to control them? The Goulburn Strathbogie Olive Growers Association (GSOGA) is hosting a panel discussion on Pests and diseases of most significance to Victorian olive growers, with...

Focus Grove Project Field Days

The Olives NZ Focus Grove Field Days held over October have been keenly supported, showing the wide interest in how the groves are progressing. The final Field Day, for the Auckland, North, Waiheke & Waikato regions, will be held on Monday, 6 November at 12.30pm....

RES Olive Oil Awards announced

Number 29 Olive Grove, Waiheke Island, have won the Supreme Award in the Royal Easter Show Olive Oil Awards with their Frantoio/Leccino/Verdale Blend. The competition has a consumer focus and judges only EVOO wholly produced in New Zealand, awarding 9 gold, 19 silver...
Conference “a cracker”

Conference “a cracker”

This week’s 2017 National Olive Industry Conference & Exhibition was the first for AOA CEO Greg Seymour and he’s rated it as “a cracker of an event”. “It was a jam-packed program of presentations, which provided fantastic information and led to some really...