The IOC puts world olive oil production for 2009/10 at 2.88 million tonnes, up 8 percent, with stocks ample and grower prices…
Snow and frost damage to olive groves in the Alicante mountains: frozen fruit, broken branches and years of lost crops, says ASAJA.…
Spain extends its olive insurance deadline to December 23 and widens cover to hail at flowering and wildlife damage. Why growers still…
Jaén's olive oil museum at Geolit will finish building within two months, with tasting rooms, labs and biomass displays. What it is…
Fake extra virgin olive oil pulled from Australian shelves after Wagga Wagga lab tests found canola and refined oil. What the ACCC…
Spain's olive oil stocks ended the season at 207,800 tonnes, 15 percent below average, after record sales. Why the grower still gets…
At its 50th anniversary session the IOC added an alkyl esters limit for extra virgin olive oil. What the new test catches…
Jaén's olive growers call a farm stoppage for November 20 as oil sells at 2.10 euros a kilo, below cost. Why the…
Frantoi Aperti brings open mills to Umbria, with Trevi's Festivol on November 7 and 8. What the weekends offer and how to…
Chile's olive oil exports are up 144 percent this year, its agriculture minister says, with output near 8,500 tonnes. Why a small…
Olive oil diet and blood pressure: a CSIC study of 36 PREDIMED patients found changes in red cell membranes. What it showed,…
The 2009 West Bank olive harvest opened on October 11 amid a spike in settler incidents, burned trees and blocked groves, UN…
Jaén olive oil forecast: 530,000 tonnes, up a fifth, while growers ruined by the 2005 frost block a Jaén avenue over their…
Oleocanthal, the peppery compound in extra virgin olive oil, changed Alzheimer's proteins in Monell lab tests. What the study showed and what…
Seville table olive growers shut their cooperatives and rallied at the Casa Rosa as picking costs overtake the price of green olives.…
Olive mill waste fiber cut fat in fried meatballs in a Lund and Crete study. What worked, what failed, and why mills…
The EPA has set the first US residue limit for pendimethalin on olives, at 0.1 ppm. Why a minor crop needed a…
Cordoba has brought forward the spraying of 3,500 hectares of olives against bud scale after a warm winter. Why timing decides a…
The Attica wildfires of August 2009 burned some 21,000 hectares of pine, farmland and olive groves near Marathon. What was lost and…
A JAMA study of 1,880 older New Yorkers links a Mediterranean diet plus exercise to less Alzheimer's. What it shows and what…
Spain has published a 2,000 hour school diploma in olive oils and wines, tasting room included. What students learn, and why it…
California olive handlers will pay $28.63 a ton instead of $15.60 after the crop fell from 108,059 tons to 49,067. What those…
Brussels has approved 16 food promotion programs worth 62.1 million euros, olive oil among them. How the scheme works and who really…
A silver medal in Los Angeles caps the best awards season Sierra Magina has had. Why mountain picual is suddenly winning olive…
En 2009, des scientifiques ont entrepris de recenser des centaines d'oliviers anciens de Crète, certains millénaires, avant que la chute des prix…
In 2009 scientists set out to catalogue hundreds of Crete's ancient olive trees, some over a thousand years old, before falling prices…
Southern Oregon keeps trying to grow olives on the strength of a Tuscan-like latitude. The promise is real oil with real character…
Australian research found olive growers could water far less without losing yield or quality. The science of deficit irrigation — and why…
Jaen is spending 4.6 million euros on an olive oil museum at the Geolit park. What it will hold, and whether a…
California adopted international olive-oil grade standards to bring order to a booming industry. Here is what the grades on the label actually…
California's growers pivoted from canning olives to oil, planting hedgerows of Spanish Arbequina that a machine can harvest — a shift that…
Olive oil earns its place in the kitchen, but the bottle is quietly useful all over the house. The tricks that actually…
Olive leaf and its main compound, oleuropein, have a long folk history and some genuinely interesting research — but the honest picture…
Olive oil as a one-step wood-floor cleaner and polish is an old household trick. Here is what it genuinely does, where it…
The fats in olive oil, fish and nuts are linked in research to mood and brain health. Here is the careful, honest…
IN Malaysia, an estimated 60% of the population will have some form of arthritis by the age of 60, particularly osteoarthritis. Rheumatoid…
When agribusiness giant Timbercorp collapsed, its olive and almond schemes showed what happens when olive groves are sold as a tax play…
Frost, unseasonal heat and hail can wreck an olive crop's oil yield even when the fruit looks fine — why Australia's boutique…
Why an olive crop that looks glorious in spring can vanish by summer — the science of fruit set, shot berries and…
When a US state adopted the world's stricter olive-oil standards, an importer went to court. The fight is dry on paper —…
A wind turbine on a famous California olive ranch was once a local controversy. It is really a window into a bigger…
A government grant to promote Australian olive oil is a small story about a big problem: how a young, high-quality producer competes…
Chopped olives and feta turn an ordinary beef patty into something Mediterranean and juicy. Here is how to build one — and…
What does 'luxury' actually mean on a bottle of extra virgin olive oil? A look at the ultra-premium end — award shows,…
The same antioxidants that make olive oil good for you may also help food last longer. A quiet, useful corner of olive…
A landmark olive-oil conference gathered chefs, scientists and producers to chase one question: what actually separates truly great extra virgin from the…
The Timbercorp collapse turned thousands of Australians into accidental olive investors — then wiped them out. It is the clearest cautionary tale…
Olive mills produce mountains of stones, pomace and prunings. Research shows this waste can pull toxic heavy metals out of polluted water…
Olive-oil fraud is thousands of years old and never went away. Here is how the adulteration really works — from the legal-but-misleading…
Trade fairs devoted entirely to extra virgin olive oil, like Trieste's Olio Capitale, are where Italy's small producers meet buyers — and…
Why olive oil keeps winning kitchens far from any olive tree — the long, steady climb of a Mediterranean staple into Northern…
An importer was fined after 'extra virgin olive oil' turned out to be roughly half sunflower oil. It is a textbook case…
New-world producers have long argued the international olive-oil rules were written for Europe. The row over Australian oil is really a story…
When olive oil prices crash, the EU can pay producers to lock oil away in storage. Here is how 'private storage aid'…
Poor soil, fierce heat, little water — the very conditions that defeat most crops are what the olive quietly prefers. That is…
A California producer sweeping a competition with a dozen medals is a good story — but what do olive-oil awards actually measure,…
How tax-driven investment schemes planted much of Australia's olive industry — then collapsed — and why the groves outlived the finance that…
Why does the olive world keep running campaigns to teach India to cook with olive oil? Because a vast, oil-loving country with…
By David Morrill, Walk down the snack aisle of a local grocery store and you’ll find the usual canisters of peanuts, bags…
When Timbercorp's harvest froze mid-season, one company bought the whole crop off the tree to keep it moving. It is a lesson…
A one-pan Moroccan-style chicken braise with chickpeas, preserved lemon and green olives — where the olives are not a garnish but the…
Diets rich in olive oil, fish and nuts are linked to a lower risk of age-related macular degeneration. Here is the measured…
Spain makes more olive oil than anyone — yet exports much of it cheaply, in bulk, to be bottled abroad. Why the…
The famous names on olive-oil bottles — Carbonell, Bertolli, Carapelli — mostly belong to a handful of giant companies. How the world's…
En 2009, un marchand de vin de Seattle a payé pour faire venir par avion une huile d'olive fraîchement pressée d'un domaine…
In 2009 a Seattle wine merchant paid to air-freight freshly pressed olive oil straight from a Tuscan estate — an extravagance, maybe,…
Australia's boldest olive experiment was industrial scale: thousands of hectares of hedgerow olives, machine-picked. Its near-collapse shows both the power and the…
A brief trade note about Iran eyeing Croatian olive oil opens a bigger story: how tiny Istria became a world-beating producer, and…
Western Australia grew from a handful of olive-oil producers to hundreds, many of them backyard growers. Here is what that boom says…
How the world's biggest olive-oil bottler nearly destroyed itself: a cautionary tale of debt-fuelled ambition, famous brands like Bertolli, and why corporate…
'Liquid gold,' the ancients called it — and the health claims have never stopped. Here is the honest version: what olive oil…
A giant Australian grove kept harvesting even as its owner collapsed — because the fruit was worth far more picked than left…
Afghanistan's Nangarhar olive groves were planted in a hopeful mid-century push, then wrecked by war. Their fitful revival is a study in…
Going green can mean picking the right olive oil and one expert on the oil says California’s premium olive oils are often…
Why does a great conference put olive oil under the microscope of trained tasters and chemists? Because the difference between real extra…
When money is tight, how does a premium food like olive oil hold up? The answer reveals what really drives a maturing…
When a head judge wins her own competition, an industry has a problem. The saga that split New Zealand's olive body is…
Olive leaf extract is one of the oldest folk remedies and one of the most oversold supplements. Here is the honest, de-hyped…
Olive oil is widely known for providing a wide range of health benefits, including but not limited to preventing skin cancer, support…
Pakistan spends heavily importing edible oil, and has wild olive hills that could grow the real thing. That is why outsiders keep…
Une étude de 2009 a nommé un antioxydant — le DHPEA-EDA — qui aide à comprendre pourquoi l'huile d'olive est bonne pour…
A 2009 study named one antioxidant — DHPEA-EDA — that helps explain why olive oil is good for the heart. Here is…
For a century, good olive oil meant imported olive oil. The rise of serious American — above all Californian — oil quietly…
Olive-oil brands are bought and sold like any other asset. Here is why the famous name on the bottle tells you almost…
One Australian grove of nearly a million trees produces a huge share of the nation's oil. How the mega-grove model works —…
Greece makes some of the world's finest olive oil and gets the least credit — much of it leaves in bulk to…
An 'Italian' olive-oil brand changing hands between a Spanish group and an Italian one is a tiny news item — and a…
A man once robbed a shop with a bottle of olive oil disguised as a gun. The daft crime is a doorway…
Should you swap butter or margarine for olive oil? Mostly yes — but let's be honest about what each of the three…
Olive leaf extract has become a booming supplement. Here is the measured version: what oleuropein actually is, what the evidence supports, and…
Moist, dairy-free and quietly sophisticated, olive oil cake lets the oil itself be the flavour. Here is the simple master recipe, a…
What actually makes a 'bumper' olive harvest — the weather, the flowering and the alternate-bearing rhythm behind a big year, seen through…
Real olive oil is just pressed fruit — no chemistry, no heat, if it is done right. Here is the whole journey…
Fresh olive oil can shed a large share of its antioxidants within about six months. Here is the mechanism — light, heat,…
A handful of true things about olives and their oil that surprise almost everyone — and that, between them, add up to…
Turkey is a top-tier olive nation you rarely see on a label. Its Aegean heartland and its trade fairs tell the story…
Who actually judges olive oil, and how? Behind every award sits a mix of trained tasters and laboratory chemistry — and knowing…
En 2009, un Texan têtu plantait des vergers d'oliviers dans le Hill Country pendant que tout le monde disait que c'était impossible.…
In 2009, a stubborn Texan was planting olive orchards in the Hill Country while everyone said it couldn't be done. The olive,…
The olive tree has been a symbol of peace and plenty for millennia — and a surprisingly willing houseplant. Here is what…
Krk island's 'Days of Olives' is more than a festival — it is a window into Croatia's serious, under-the-radar olive tradition on…
An embezzlement at a California olive company is a small crime with a big lesson: olives and their oil carry real money…
Croatia makes small quantities of world-class oil on a drought-prone Adriatic coast. Here is why its harvest swings so hard, and why…
A gold medal can transform a small oil's sales — which is exactly why the fairness of the contest matters so much.…
A modern olive mill is a race against time and oxygen — and increasingly a test of how cleanly you can run…
A medal on a bottle looks like proof of quality. Sometimes it is — and sometimes it means far less. Here is…
Big olive-oil brands rest on family firms and cross-border alliances you never see. Here is how the trade behind the supermarket bottle…
Malta once ran on olive oil, then almost forgot how to make it. The revival of the island's ancient indigenous Bidni olive…
An olive-oil label is half information, half theatre. Here is how to read past the marketing to the five words that actually…
When a food giant borrows heavily to buy famous olive-oil brands, the reckoning is a fire sale. How debt forces companies to…
Why olive growers vote to tax themselves — the quiet logic of industry levies that fund marketing, research and the fight against…
A dry industry seminar on saving energy in the olive sector points at a real, hidden problem: milling olives eats power and…
A Greek study linked a diet rich in olive oil and fish to better bone mass in women. Here is what it…
Tunisia is one of the world's great olive oil producers — and one of its most invisible, because so much of its…
You can press your own olive oil at home. Whether it's worth it is another matter entirely, and the answer explains why…
The olive fruit fly is the olive's worst enemy. One weapon against it is tiny and alive: a parasitic wasp that hunts…
Why a bottle of olive oil is one of the world's oldest gifts and rallying points — from disaster-relief sales to the…
Tunisian scientists patenting discoveries about their native olive oils is a good excuse to ask a bigger question: what does the research…
Aceite de La Alcarria is now a protected designation of origin. What its rule book demands, from the Castellana olive to bottling…
Nine mills in ten stopped work in Jaen and 10,000 people marched over olive oil prices. What growers are demanding from Madrid…
Spain's olive harvest forecast keeps falling, Cordoba down 27 percent, yet prices at origin are on the floor. Why a short crop…
Parliament has approved the EU's new pesticide rules. Spanish growers say olive fly control could get much harder. What was actually agreed.
Spanish researchers say airborne pollen and March heat predict the olive crop. Plus a lab result on olive skins that needs careful…
Spain's national extra virgin olive oil prize is open for the 2008/09 crop, with entries closing February 6. What the rules reveal…