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Oroville-based California Olive Ranch Inc. continues to make progress on building the largest olive mill in North America.
The mill, being built near Artois, is expected to process 76,000 gallons of olive oil a day.
The company has invested more than $30 million in its Glenn County operations, which includes a 1.500 olive orchard.
Glenn County olive [...]

By Michael Berger,
Olive oil is good for your health. Unfortunately, the production of olive oil is not. During the olive oil production process, olive oil mills produce a liquid waste called olive black water or olive-oil-mill wastewater (OMW).
This waste water has significant polluting properties due to its high levels of chemical oxygen demand (COD), [...]

By Melinda,
The international olive industry is one step closer to implementing regulations that will support fair exports and consumers interest.
The step follows a hot topic session coordinated by the Australian Olive Association (AOA) at the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) annual meeting held in Seattle, USA, on 20 May.
Paul Miller, president of the AOA, was [...]

By Rhys Blakely,
The desert of Rajasthan in the north of India is to be planted with a million olive trees grown in Israel in an effort to transform the landscape and the fortunes of its struggling farmers.
The countries are finalising a three-year plan on agriculture that will introduce several crops associated with the Middle East [...]

By Cynthia Graber,
By correlating fruit color with oil content measured via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), growers can find the optimal time to harvest their olives.
Olive oil producers generally guess the best time to harvest their olives by checking the fruit’s color. The olive has to hit that perfect spot where they’ve just turned ripe—purple to [...]

By Reed Fujii,
LODI - Olive oil production in California is a hot ticket.
About 130 people joined in a two-day class offered Friday and Saturday in Lodi by the University of California, and others had to be turned away, said Dan Flynn, executive director of the UC Davis Olive Center. California olive oil production still is [...]

The region’s olive trees are bursting with fruit this year, after a low yield in 2007 due to drought.
The olive industry is looking up for Eyre Peninsula, with a record amount of olives, according to olive press operator and olive grower Peter Green.
Mr Green started harvesting his olives with the mechanical harvester he part-owns last [...]

The Olive Oil Festival will be held from 3rd to 6th April in Ranzo in Imperia’s hinterland. Arrived at the 6th edition, this year this big festival is yet again promoted by Ranzo Council, the Region, Province and the Mountain Community of the Alta Valle Arroscia
Many olive oil producers of Ranzo , well known in [...]

Olive traders from 12 countries flocked to the recently concluded International Olive Products and Technology Exhibition and Forum (IOTEX 2008) at the Amman Motor Show to develop a cooperative spirit, exchange expertise and put the international olive industry on a higher pedestal.
Around 100 merchants from Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Italy, Greece, France Turkey, Cyprus, [...]

By Laura Kurtzman,
After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to the flowering of the California wine industry now, it hopes to do the same for olive oil.
The challenges to the emerging industry are significant. They include finding economical ways to produce fine oil, dealing [...]

The Texas Department of Agriculture reports the Lone Star State’s olive industry is poised for unprecedented growth in 2008, thanks to advances in olive tree production and an increased demand for olive oil. The industry was first established in 1994 with roughly 20,000 trees on four orchards. Today, the number of olive trees has grown [...]

Himachal Pradesh will welcome the proposed Indo-Spanish joint venture olive oil extraction unit establishment in the interiors of the state to give boost to the professional cash crop cultivation.
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today, after discussing the JV proposal to set up olive oil extraction unit in the state, said the border areas of the [...]

Marketable health benefits, along with a growing consumer interest in Mediterranean foods and unique regional flavor choices, are helping to drive an invigorated olive oil market in the U.S., which should surpass $1.3 billion by 2010, according to Olive Oil in the U.S., the latest market research from Packaged Facts.
Packaged Facts projects that the olive [...]

The European Commission has given Italy two months to explain why it obliges olive oil producers to mark the origin of the olives on product labels in contravention of E.U. laws, a spokesman said Friday.
“As far as we are concerned, that is not in conformity with European legislation, where voluntary labeling is possible but not [...]

By Andrea Bennett,
When Clifford C. Graber first came here from Indiana, he lived in a tent on his land.
He built his house and planted citrus trees as the burgeoning industry that would later define the region was catching on more than a century ago.
It was a different fruit, though, that would occupy Graber’s interest, delight [...]

Hoping to do for olives and olive oil what it has done for grapes and wine, the University of California, Davis, today launched the first university-based olive research and education center in North America.
Plans for the new UC Davis Olive Center, which is part of the university’s Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, [...]

Regarding table olives, Morocco is the second exporting country worldwide. Spain remains the market leader. For olive oil, Morocco is the fifth or sixth largest exporter. The Moroccan company SACIA is responsible for a large part of the national olive export.
SACIA was founded in 1999 when the first machine for the production of olive oil [...]

This book covers the history, botany and agricultural aspects of the crop, summarising the techniques that have been developed to improve harvesting, processing and packaging of olives. Full details are provided relating to the physico-chemical and microbiological aspects of processing of each of the olive types. It will serve as a practical guide to agricultural [...]

By Sonya Neufeld,
FRAUD. It’s associated with identity theft and bouncing cheques, but apparently it is also rife in the olive oil industry.
Fake olive oil is an international issue, especially in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer and exporter of olive oil.
Australia the largest consumer of olive oil per capita outside the Mediterranean is not immune.
Olive [...]

Almost 40% of American Dietetic Association members surveyed say their confidence in the food supply has decreased over the past twelve months, according to a survey conducted by the California Olive Industry.
The registered dieticians and nutritionists also indicated a strong preference for American food, with 66% saying that when presented with a choice, they prefer [...]

According to estimates of the Foreign Trade Institute of Spain, United States consumes about 170,000 tons of olives annually, which accounts for over half a kilo per habitant. That could be explained because of the higher conscience of Americans about healthy products as well as the new preferences for exotic products. Therefore, olives are consumed [...]

After you’ve enjoyed a tangy olive, don’t throw away the pit - it could soon be providing a clean, green answer to heat and electricity production, thanks to technology developed by Israeli start-up Genova, now setting up its first pilot plant.
The company, which was founded in September 2004, is headquartered in the northern town of [...]

By Sudhin Thanawala,
MARTINEZ, Calif.—Later this fall, Tom Powers will harvest his olives and press them into his Alhambra Valley brand authentic extra virgin olive oil with a distinctive peppery finish.
“This is really high quality stuff,” says Powers, whose two varieties of Tuscan olives grow amid the dry, rolling hills of Contra Costa County, northeast of [...]

Americans are consuming two million litres of Australian olive oil annually.
The startling statistic was revealed as part of a media briefing on Australian Extra Virgin - the new brand the Australian Olive Association (AOA) is hoping will help the industry grow across the globe.
“America’s kitchens are now using a quarter of Australia’s annual olive oil [...]

Dalmia Continental Pvt Ltd (DCPL), a leader in the retail business of olive oil in the country, today launched Hudson Canola Oil in Punjab today. The oil is good for the heart.
The chairman of the company, V N Dalmia, said the people of Punjab were familiar with Canola Oil. So the firm expects good returns [...]