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 27, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
In the latest move to protect one of its most famous exports, Italy has increased fines for misleading packaging on olive oil to up to €18,000.
Jun 20, 2016 | Australia, International News/Trends, Marketing, 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...
Jun 20, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News
We have come to expect lies from celebrities, politicians, talking heads on TV. But our groceries? The idea is sad and scary — but true. Cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil can be mostly canola. What you think is honey can be primarily high-fructose corn syrup. And...
Jun 20, 2016 | Competitions, EVOO, Olive Oil News
The key dates have been announced for the 2016 Olives New Zealand EVOO Competition, so lock them into your diaries. We’ll bring you updates in coming editions of Friday Olive Extracts. Key dates: Entries open 15 August and close 16 September, ready for judging 3-5...
Jun 20, 2016 | International News/Trends, Olive business, Olive Oil News, Technology/Science
Following on the emergence of Keurig-like devices for everything from juices and soups to marijuana, an Italian startup has designed a counter-top appliance for pressing your own olive oil on the spot. The debate has already started … quality-wise, is this really a...
