Olive stones (pits) could be the newest ethanol feedstock used in Spain and could give the olive processing industry an opportunity to turn the 4 million tons of olive stones it generates every year into a valuable asset.
Researchers from the Universities of Jaén and Granada have now shown how this can be achieved in [...]
By Sarah Leary,
Photo Jason Hollister,
ONE of the Australian North-West Coast’s oldest olive groves has proved its oil to be world class.
Boutique Abbotsham company Cradle Coast Olives claimed silver and gold at this week’s Australian Olive Expo in Canberra for its line of Paragon oil.
“We had a stall at the Tasmanian tasting stand and we sold [...]
Olive growers and distributors meeting in Canberra over the last two days believe that there is plenty of room for growth in the local industry.
The Australian Olive Expo has heard it should be viable to produce a local extra virgin brand in and around the ACT.
Australian Olive Association president Paul Miller says the area [...]
Olive production in the United States is a multimillion dollar business and has been located primarily on the West coast. However, olive orchards are now being planted throughout the south, where hot dry conditions prevail, and where temperatures do not drop below 10*F during the winter.
Ty Ty tree nursery is announcing shipments of a [...]
last week, Sarah Palin gave her first policy speech, urging the federal government to fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Along the way, she too attacked science earmarks by claiming that the shortfall needed to fully fund the act was less money than was allocated to projects that have “little or nothing to [...]
The Australian Olive Association is launching the olive industry’s new brand, Australian Extra Virgin. The Australian Extra Virgin brand aims at raising awareness and educating consumers about the health benefits, freshness and quality of Australian Extra Virgin olive oil.
As part of this campaign, the Association has introduced a website, www.australianextravirgin.com.au, which features recipe ideas, health [...]
Twenty members of the Italian NAS food piracy unit have graduated from a special course laid on by the Italian National Olive Oil Association Unaprol.
Police said the group graduated from a course taught by the National Olive Oil Association Unaprol that included instruction on how to taste fake extra-virgin olive oil and how to determine [...]
By Rocco Loosbrock,
Most gourmets and nutritional health aficionados already know that olive oil is the natural juice produced by the olive tree to naturally and effectively preserve the taste, aroma, vitamins and properties of the olive fruit.
Some culinary connoisseurs know that olive oil is the only vegetable oil that can be consumed as it is, [...]
By Sean Janssen,
The fortunes of Californian olive growers are mixed this year.
In Jamestown, grower Leslie Hurst said her Hurst Ranch Feeds & Fencing crop looks to be following a statewide trend of light tonnage as weather has taken its toll on this year’s crop.
The California Farm Bureau Federation Food and Farm News reports that, as [...]
By PJ Bremier,
“I’ve got 38 of the most wonderful olive trees and they produce tremendously,” Jim Simon says gleefully as he looks forward to his annual olive-pressing party in November.
That’s when Simon, owner of the Building Supply Center in Point Reyes Station, and his wife, Linda, spread out a festive Tuscan feast and turn up [...]
Kapiti olive oil scooped gold for the 4th in a row at the New Zealand Olive Gold Awards held in Wellington.
One of the three Raumati and Te Horo growers, Helen Walshaw, said hot days and cool nights on Kapiti Coast helped enhance the robust fruity flavour of the oil.
Kapiti Olives sends the fruit to a [...]
Hand-picking can cost growers more than half of their gross returns
By Hank Shaw,
A clutch of olive growers stood around a machine that looked like a mobile, padded skateboard ramp attached to a conveyor and armed with a massive pair of grippers.
The machine’s grippers grabbed the trunk of an olive tree and began to shake it. [...]
By Alastair Bland,
At Bernardo Winery, one of the oldest olive oil producers in California, oil flow has come to a standstill. While the Rancho Bernardo company has historically produced 300 to 400 gallons of olive oil per year from its 1200 trees, the olive fruit fly, an invasive pest that’s native to Mediterranean Europe and [...]
L’huile d’olive et d’autres gras insaturés (les “bons gras”) qui contiennent de l’acide oléique, tels que les gras contenus dans l’avocat et les noix, aident à réguler la faim et prolonger le temps entre les repas selon une recherche publiée dans la revue Cell Metabolism.
L’acide oléique est transformé dans le petit intestin en une hormone [...]
By Mohammed Zaatari,
With the start of the autumn olive-picking season in Lebanon, farmers in the South flocked to their olive groves Monday in order to gather the fruit and ensure provisions for the upcoming year. In the village of Tanbourit near Sidon, Umm Abdo Sawma expressed satisfaction over this year’s crop.
“We have a great crop [...]
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