Jul 21, 2015 | Australia, Competitions, Olive business
It’s a chilly Wednesday afternoon in regional Victoria, and I’m gliding over one of Australia’s best olive groves. The hum of the harvester surrounds me while, below my feet, some of Boundary Bend’s finest fruit are shaken from its branches to produce one of...
Jul 21, 2015 | Australia, Olive business
The 2015 Australian and New Zealand Olive Industry Directory (OID) celebrates 10 years in print for this “must have” industry information source. Publisher Ryan Media began compiling annual industry listings in 2006, when there were just 520 olivegrowers and olive...
Jul 21, 2015 | Australia, Olive business, Services
This month Kialla Pure Foods launched an exciting new feature across their website – introducing the Plate2Farm tracker. This tracker allows consumers to input the batch number of their purchased products into the app on the website that then tracks the origins of the...
Jul 21, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive business
An olive oil producer in Tunisia has received a loan package of $26 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) aiming to increase olive oil production and develop exports.
Jul 21, 2015 | International News/Trends, Labelling, Olive business
I have been reporting over the last year and a half on the debate raging in Greece on how to implement the EU 432/2012 labeling regulation. Despite the many attempts by scientists, olive growers, olive mills and even members of the Greek Parliament to convince the...
Jul 21, 2015 | NZ, Olive business
Reports are generally signaling a much smaller harvest for most New Zealand growers this year, with some not even registering a harvestable crop for 2015. We’ll be covering the New Zealand harvest in the Harvest Round-up of the September edition of Olivegrower &...
