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Croatian olive farmer Sandi Chiavalon has high hopes of taking on the might and quantity of Greece, Italy and Spain with the quality of oil from his groves. The three European giants may account for more than three-quarters of global olive oil production, but Chiavalon is one of many young Croatian entrepreneurs readying their produce […]

Small harvest being reported Groves cut, making way for more profitable crops Central Valley olive growers are reporting one of the smallest harvests in years – 51,000 tons, well under the USDA’s initial estimate of 65,000 tons. One reason: Fewer olive trees. Growers, disappointed with the money to be made growing table olives, have been […]

The Department of Agriculture and Food is reminding growers that now is the time to be checking olive trees for signs of Olive lace bug. Department olive industry development officer Dick Taylor said olive lace bug was an established pest on all mainland States in Australia except the Northern Territory. Mr Taylor said in severe […]

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 […]

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 […]