Apr 19, 2016 | Australia, General Olive News, Table Olive News
Pine Mountain’s Bernard Mahon is a fourth generation Ipswich farmer with an undeniable passion for locally-grown produce. The olive and lime grower’s great-grandfather first settled the land on which he still farms today back in the 1860s. Mr Mahon is now...
Apr 19, 2016 | Australia, Environment, General Olive News
The 2016 olive harvest is now in full swing across Western Australia’s south coast. Recent rain and warm weather means that groves in the Esperance region have ripened earlier than expected.
Apr 7, 2016 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olives and Health
A global police crackdown has seized over 10,000 tonnes of illicit or dangerous food and drink, including monkey meat, dead insects and fake sugar spiked with fertiliser, the European police agency says. In Italy, officers seized 85 tonnes of olives “painted...
Apr 7, 2016 | Diet/Food, General Olive News, International News/Trends
Both olive oil and butter are 100% fat. Both have more than 100 calories a tablespoon, but olive oil has less saturated fat and no dietary cholesterol. Almost all foods contain some form of fat. Fats are organic compounds that are made up of carbon, hydrogen, and...
Apr 7, 2016 | General Olive News, International News/Trends
Officers from the Toledo and Ciudad Real sections of the Guardia Civil have uncovered a gang of olive thieves who are believed to have sold 300 tons of the fruit to oil producers and have arrested 23 people.
Apr 7, 2016 | General Olive News, International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
Georgia’s first ever olive processing plant has opened in eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region. Yesterday Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili attended the opening of the factory, which was financially supported by a state program. Within the program, about 300 hectares...