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By Geoff Easdown, HIGH-INCOME earners tipped an estimated $1.26 billion into managed agricultural investments this year to offset their taxes. Forest lots, olives, almonds and cattle herds dominated managed investment schemes with sales showing a 20 per cent lift on last year.

By James Arens, In 2006 Mendocino County will be seeing a new fruit that isn’t normally on the crop report, olives. “I’ve seen our olive oil industry growing in the four years that I have been here,” said Nick Oliver Agriculture/Measurement Standards Specialist III at the Mendocino County Department of Agriculture. “And in the future [...]

Come fall, Queen Creek Olive Mill visitors will no longer have to leave the premises for a meal. The working olive farm and mill will open its own restaurant, Trattoria Del Piero, between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1, in time for the first olive harvest, said Perry Rea, the mill’s owner.

By Dave Friedlos, Olive oil producer Minerva is using software to extract information from its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system reports to boost business performance. The 100-year-old company translates information and data into spreadsheets and end user reports without the need for significant IT skills or resources. It also handles account reconciliation, condensing information such [...]

From Pat Veretto, Here's a tip: I heard that American Airlines saved $40,000.00 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. One olive. $40,000.00 Picture it in your mind.

Par Abdellah Chankour, Une large compagne de communication que celle lancée tous azimuts par le Crédit agricole, une banque publique, au sujet de son forum d’investissement dans l’olive. Tous les supports ou presque de la presse quotidienne et  hebdomadaire, arabophone et francophone, ont été touchés. Sauf votre quotidien Aujourd’hui Le Maroc. Il n’a pas été [...]

Olive production in Syria reached at 844 thousand tons in 2005 and the number of olive trees mounted to nearly 80 millions where 841 traditional and modern olive pressures exist in the country, Director General of the Environmental Affairs Committee Akram Khouri reported Thursday.