Olives101.com

By Ben Brown, Mendocino County’s burgeoning olive industry will be the hardest hit by last weekend’s cold snap, said Mendocino County Agricultural Commissioner Dave Bengston. “It’s been a long time since we had temperatures this low,” Bengston said. Unlike grapes and pears, which are dormant this time of year, olive trees are evergreen and more […]

THIS country’s finest olive oil comes from Franschhoek in the Boland. Waterfall River Farm beat twenty contenders in the Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition with an oil made from its maiden vintage. The results of the first SA Olive Awards were announced last month at Laborie in Paarl. Winners were awarded in three categories: Extra […]

By Jane Bradley, A FORMER fund manager who set up her olive oil distribution business as a sideline while taking time off work to look after her baby son has seen business more than treble in a year. Spanish-born Maria Cumming Panadero launched El Olivo two years ago to keep in touch with her homeland […]

AYDIN – Aydin Joint Venturers Corp. chairman Nadir Kutluca said that an olive oil refinery which will be established jointly with the Italian firm Bernardini, would start its test production on March 15th. Holding a press conference at the construction area of the refinery, Kutluca stressed that 4 million YTL (nearly 2.8 million USD) were […]

By Maher Zeineddine, CHOUF: A new harvesting tool on the market is making the lives of Lebanese olive farmers much easier amid a record-breaking harvest season. While most farmers continue to harvest their olive crops in the traditional fashion – either by climbing a ladder and picking the olives off one by one, or by […]