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2022 Central NSW Olive Workshop
28 July 2022 @ 8:00 am - 29 July 2022 @ 4:00 pm
$33.00 – $176.00
Venue: Rylstone Olive Press, 25 Mossy Rock Ln, Monivae, NSW
Workshop Cost:
2 days Member/Levy payers: $165 / 2 days general: $176
1 day Member/Levy payers: $99 / 1 day general: $110.
Includes light breakfast, morning & afternoon tea and lunch on both days.
Dinner Cost (optional to attend): $110 pp (Dinner at Lowe Family Wines Mudgee) + $33 pp bus from Kandos, Rylstone and Mudgee
Prices include GST
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Background:
This workshop is being run to address the issues that growers in central NSW and the Hunter Valley specifically have endured over the past few years:
- Drought and fires
- Rain and flooding
- Lace Bug
- New Olive growers – there have been many olive groves which have changed hands and the new growers need industry information and support to produce olives profitably and to process the olives into high quality EVOO and/or Table Olives.
Presenters and exhibitors will be coming from NSW, Victoria and Queensland.
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Draft Program
Day 1
| Thursday 28 July 2022 | |
| 8:00 – 8:45am | Registration and light breakfast (coffee, tea, pastries) |
| Session One | Industry Best Practice – Chair TBA |
| 9:00 – 10:20am | 9:00am Welcome – Michael Thomsett, President AOA
9:10 am OliveCare and Food Safety – Mike Southan CEO AOA |
| Break : Trade Displays Morning Tea | |
| Session Two | Biosecurity and IPDM |
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | Detection, Prevention, Mitigation, Responses – Robert Spooner-Hart UWS and Len Tesoriero |
| Break: Trade Displays Lunch | |
| Session Three | Know Your Grove |
| 1:30 – 3:00pm | 13:30pm – Australian Tree Crop Mapping Project – Alex Schultz NSW DPI
14:15pm – Grove Health and Nutrition – Michael Thomsett, Earthbound Horticulture, John Barton, Charton & Bang (TBC), Christine Corner, Crave Natural, Mudgee. |
| Break – Trade Displays and Afternoon Tea | |
| 5:30pm | Lowe Family Wines Mudgee – Workshop Dinner – Speaker David Lowe |
| Coaches – leaving Kandos Fairways Motel 4:25pm+ Globe Hotel Rylstone 4:40pm, Cnr Lue + Bara Road 4:55pm, Leaving Lawson Park Mudgee 5:15pm |
Day 2
| Friday 29 July 2022 | ||
| 7:30 – 8:00am | Breakfast (coffee, tea, pastries) | |
| Session Four | Extra Virgin Olive Oil Qualty | |
| 8:00am Oil Quality, Storage, Post Harvest issues, Jamie Ayton NSW DPI Wagga Wagga
8:30am Growers and Good palates, Helen Taylor, NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga |
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| Session Five | Australian Extra Virgin Olive Oil retail and foodservice | |
| 9:30am Australian EVOO in Retail, Andrew Burgess Cobram Estate Vic
10:00am Australian EVOO in Foodservice, Restaurants, Distributors Westerly Isbaih, ALTO Olives, NSW |
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| 10:30 am | Break: Trade Displays and Morning Tea | |
| Session Five | Table Olives in 2022 | |
| 11:00 – 12:45pm | 11:00am – Table Olives Margie Carter Parafield Olives Wagga Wagga | |
| Sessions Six and Seven
Concurrent Sessions |
Concurrent Session Six
11:45am – 1:00 pm Pruning and Rejuvenating your Grove – Andrew Taylor, Pendleton Estate, Sth Australia; Michael Thomsett, President AOA; Joel Booty |
Concurrent Session Seven
11:45am – 1:00 pm Making Compost –– John Barton, Charton & Bang (TBC)
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| 1:00pm | Break Trade Displays and lunch | |
| Sessions Six and Seven
Concurrent Sessions
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Concurrent Session Six
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm Pruning and Rejuvenating your Grove – Andrew Taylor, Pendleton Estate, Sth Australia; Michael Thomsett, President AOA; Joel Booty |
Concurrent Session Seven
1:45 pm – 3:30 pm Making Compost –– John Barton, Charton & Bang (TBC)
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| Session Eight | Panel Session – Harvest/Processing and Pruning Logistics issues | |
| 3:30pm | Panel: Michael Thomsett, Mike Southan (MC), Amanda Bailey, Jayne Bentivoglio | |
| 4:00pm | Close and Depart | |
This is part of the Olive levy project Australian olive industry communications and extension program (OL18000), funded by Hort Innovation, using the Hort Innovation olive research and development levy, co-investment from the Australian Olive Association and contributions from the Australian Government.
