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By Paul Edwards, AUSTRALIA’S fast-growing olive industry is coming to grips with the reality that it’s one thing to grow fruit but quite another to make money from it. Competing for the consumer dollar against cheap European imports is tough – and together with buyer reluctance to buy more expensive brands, there is supermarket resistance […]

Par Bertrand de Cabarrus, Depuis quelques années, l’Argentine enregistre des records de production et d’exportation d’olives et d’huile d’olive. La première culture de l’olive en Argentine remonte à 1562 dans la province de la Rioja. La consommation, quant à elle, commença à se développer au cours du dix-neuvième siècle avec l’arrivée des immigrants en provenance […]

Dear Dr. Fox: One year, there was a flea infestation in our area. A friend told me if I rubbed my dog’s coat and skin with olive oil, the fleas and itching would go away. I tried it, and the constant itching and fleas disappeared as if by magic. — M.M., Clifton Park, N.Y. Dear […]