Jun 27, 2016 | Environment, General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business
Thousands of olive trees have been destroyed. Photo: Depositphotos.com Thousands of olive trees have been destroyed. Photo: Depositphotos.com Dutch farmers’ association LTO is warning holidaymakers not to bring home olive tree cuttings if they spend time in Italy and...
Jun 27, 2016 | Environment, General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business
The EU’s top court ruled Thursday the European Commission can order member states to cut down healthy olive trees to stem the spread of damaging bacteria after Italian authorities halted a controversial felling program in December.
Jun 27, 2016 | Australia, General Olive News, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Rob McGavin has led Boundary Bend to win over increasingly educated Australian consumers. With his company’s expansion to the world’s largest market, the odds of finding award-winning Cobram Estate olive oils at a store near you are getting better every...
Jun 27, 2016 | Australia, Environment, General Olive News
A recent display of ACT Heritage Registered Trees at the ACT Heritage Library in Woden included a poster featuring osage orange trees and three olive trees (Olea europaea) on the site of the former Charnwood Homestead in Fraser. When registered in August last year,...
Jun 27, 2016 | Australia, General Olive News, Olive business, Olive Oil News
For the first time in eight years, Broken Hill’s olive grove sits unpicked. The former mine site is known for producing award-wining olive oil, but soaking rain in the region has had an adverse effect on the orchard. Gary Ferguson from Broken Hill Gourmet...
Jun 20, 2016 | General Olive News, NZ, Olive Oil News
The harvest of 1400 olive trees in Marlborough will use traditional European methods this weekend – long mats and big sticks. The Marlborough Returned and Services Association (RSA) is holding its annual olive harvest at the Burleigh Memorial Olive Grove, in...