Nov 29, 2013 | NZ, Uncategorised
From all accounts, flowering is looking excellent across most of New Zealand’s olive-growing regions. While it’s great to see, Olives New Zealand has issued a word of caution to growers not to allow over-cropping. “While this would result in a bumper harvest in 2014,...
Nov 29, 2013 | NZ, Uncategorised
New Zealand’s prime minister is looking to put his country’s relationship back on track with Thailand after the damaging botulism crisis in August by embarking on a trade visit of the Southeast Asian country over three days.
Nov 29, 2013 | NZ, Seminars/Conference
The 2014 Olives New Zealand Conference and AGM will be held in Wellington on Saturday, 22 March at the Brentwood Hotel, starting at 8.30am with the AGM and finishing at 5pm. Value-adding to the weekend, there will be an optional excursion on the Sunday to Wairarapa,...
Oct 18, 2013 | NZ, Olive Oil News
Olives New Zealand members also had great success at the Easter Show Olive Oil Awards, taking out all of the major awards at the event. Congratulations to all the winners: Supreme Champion and Champion Medium – Olea Estate; Champion Delicate – The Vintiners Grove;...
Oct 18, 2013 | EVOO, NZ, Olive Oil News
There was excellent newspaper coverage of this year’s awards, accompanied by Olives New Zealand advertising in the three main daily papers – DomPost – Life, Herald – Bite, and Press – Zest. There was also great coverage in regional newspapers and on Radio New Zealand,...
