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California farmers are making a big push, planting tens of thousands of trees By George Raine, It was Julio Cesar’s first day planting trees in the olive orchard in the Sacramento Valley and he already had it down to a science: Dig a hole half a shovel deep, place the root ball attached to a […]

By Stephen Daniells, Tyrosol, the most abundant biophenol in olive oil, could boost a cell’s antioxidant defences, despite only being a weak antioxidant itself, says new research from Italy. “These findings give further evidence in favour of olive oil consumption to counteract cardiovascular diseases,” wrote lead author Roberta Di Benedetto from Italy’s National Centre for […]

Modalités d’Intervention et de fonctionnement du fonds de promotion de l’huile d’olive conditionnée. Décret n°2006-2095 du 24 juillet 2006, fixant les modalités d’Intervention et de fonctionnement du fonds de promotion de l’huile d’olive conditionnée. Suite & Source du lien

By Blake Nicholson, Once beloved as windbreaks, trees banned in some states Russian olive trees, which have sunk their roots in soil from the Mediterranean to northern China, are finding U.S. soil less and less hospitable. Some state officials, who think the trees suck up large amounts of water and crowd out native vegetation, now […]

By Harry Cline, California olive crop forecast is for 50,000 tons, down 65 percent from last year’s crop of 142,000 tons. Bearing acreage is estimated at 31,000 for a yield of 1.61 tons per acre, down 64 percent from last year’s yield. Olive growers across California are reporting that the 2006 olive crop is the […]