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By Kim Cuby, PETALUMA, Calif. – Seated at a small table, listening to her grandson’s high school classmates on stage, Nan Tucker McEvoy looks more like a proud matriarch than a groundbreaking agricultural entrepreneur. But it’s McEvoy’s olives, not the jazz, that drew nearly 600 friends and visitors to her annual harvest party last weekend […]

By Isaura Daniel, Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum, Approximately one year ago, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) planted 40 different types of olive trees in the Brazilian semi-arid. The seedlings came from eight different countries, including Morocco. In 2008, they should begin bearing fruits, which will attest to the viability of olive planting in the […]

By Ben Brown, The Daily Journal Although picking and processing may be winding down among the county’s grape growers, for the growing number of farmers who have dipped into the olive market, the season has only just begun. At Olivino, at the foot of Duncan Peak in Hopland, where a new olive press has been […]

Stuck at $2.6 Billion, U.S. Sales of Fermented Vegetables Could Be In a Pickle! Despite a consumer awakening to the probiotic health benefits of fermented vegetables, sales have been flat for the past five years, hovering at $2.6 billion, according to Pickles, Olives, and Relishes in the U.S., a new report from market research publisher […]

Un programme quinquennal permettant la plantation de quelque 17.075 ha en arbres fruitiers est en cours de réalisation à travers des projets intégrés dans la province de Nador, a indiqué la Direction provinciale de l’agriculture à Nador (DPA). Le programme, qui s’étend jusqu’à 2010 et touche les terres bour et irriguées prévoit la plantation de […]