Apr 7, 2015 | EVOO, NZ, Olive Oil News
The 2015 harvest has commenced in Northland, with growers reporting pleasing crop loads. The Olives New Zealand Certification program, in conjunction with the oil testing service at Wagga Wagga (Aust), officially starts on 1 May. All ONZ members will received...
Apr 7, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News, Uncategorised
It continues to be sold. I continue to be amazed. Pomace olive oil is what I’m talking about, in all its overpriced toxic splendour. The fact that something has the words olive and oil written on it, but is also freakily well-priced, is naturally going to have...
Apr 7, 2015 | Olive Oil News
If you’re in the Balonne and Border Rivers regions of Queensland, there’s funding currently available to help understand and develop markets. The Queensland Government’s High Value Horticulture Value Chains project is offering a co-investment funding scheme, providing...
Apr 7, 2015 | Olive Oil News, Olive Oil Shows
Attendee registrations have now opened for the Naturally Good Expo, a business event for the certified organic and natural products industry. The expo is not open to the general public; it is strictly trade only for retail buyers, distributors, importers/exporters,...
Apr 7, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
EU member states are divided on how to stop the spread of a disease affecting olive trees in Italy that could result in around a million being cut down, officials said last Friday (27 March). Experts from the 28 European Union nations gathered in Brussels this week to...
Apr 7, 2015 | International News/Trends, Olive Oil News
The European Commission has proposed cutting down up to 11 million olive trees in South Italy to contain the spread of Xylella fastidiosa. The bacterium spread by insects has been blamed for the devastation of over 74,000 acres of olive groves in the Salento region of...
