Oct 4, 2013 | Olive Oil News, Uncategorised
A pest plant, which Mitcham Council spends more than $500,000 a year to destroy, is on sale at a Blackwood supermarket. The council will write to Blackwood Coles asking it to stop selling potted olive plants, describing them as an environmental pest, a bushfire hazard...
Oct 4, 2013 | Olive Oil News, Uncategorised
The local region is a carpet of grazing and cropping land. Agriculture is a way of life, with generations carrying on family traditions of producing livestock and facing cycles of planting and harvest. Some area producers do the same, but they have evolved their...
Oct 4, 2013 | Olive Oil News, Seminars/Conference
The Western Australian Olive Council (WAOC), in conjunction with the AOA and chief judge Richard Gawel, is organising Olive Oil Tasting Workshops for later this year. The initial workshop/s will be at beginners’ level, with a judging recruitment workshop to follow if...
Oct 4, 2013 | EVOO, Olive Oil News
Riverton and District High School were clear winners in the 2013 Royal Adelaide Show Young Olive Oil Judges Competition, taking out first and third place this year after winning first place at last year’s show. The Mid North was well represented in the competition,...
Oct 4, 2013 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Research
The International Olive Council has praised the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) for the effort behind its report on competition in the global olive oil trade but laments that “opinions as opposed to facts” are at times conveyed in it. In its first...
Sep 25, 2013 | Olive Oil News
If shopping for olive oil leaves you confused, you’re not alone. Extra virgin, pure, light … it’s hard to know what’s best, and according to the Australian Olive Association, oils ain’t the oils we’re told they are. The Association,...
