29 Nov
By Rob Rogers, At the McEvoy Ranch, the end of the harvest season comes not with the arrival of turkey, cranberry sauce or stuffing, but with the bottling of “olio nuovo” – a bright-green, strong-tasting oil made from the 550-acre ranch’s freshest olives. Like almost all of the olive oil produced at the northern Marin […]
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28 Nov
By Robbi Pengelly, With the grape harvest wrapped up, the focus has turned to Sonoma Valley’s other crop – olives. Here workers at B.R. Cohn Winery flail at olive trees with long poles like acolytes in some ancient Druid ritual. Next month will mark the launch of the Valley’s annual Olive Festival, complete with the […]
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26 Nov
Finolex Group has stepped into the business of olive oil and chosen a 210-hectare stretch of barren land in Rajasthan for plantation purpose. Finolex is more known for its electrical and Telecommunications Cables, Optical Fibre Cables, Rigid PVC Pipes, Suspension and Paste Grade PVC Resins, Continuous Cast Copper Rods, PVC Sheets, Electrical Switches and CFL’s. […]
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25 Nov
A Corning couple is out around $1,200 after thieves stole 4,000 pounds of freshly harvested olives Sunday night. By Ryan Sabalow, Katherine Woodson, who owns a 20-acre plantation with her husband Marshall, said that an olive harvesting contractor had worked all day Saturday and Sunday getting the harvest ready to take the fruit to wholesalers […]
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25 Nov
La production mondiale d’huile d’olive devrait atteindre 2.633.000 de tonnes pour la campagne 2007/2008, indique un bilan provisoire adopté par le Conseil oléicole international (COI) lors de la 96e session de son assemblée générale ordinaire tenue du 17 au 21 novembre à Madrid. Selon le même bilan (entre octobre 2007 et septembre 2008), établi sur […]
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