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County supervisors, in an effort to support wineries and olive growers, are lowering the amount of transportation fees growers are required to pay. The fee will be based only on the square footage of the commercial use area, such as wine/olive oil tasting and sales facilities. The processing facilities or light industrial component will be […]

Fires have destroyed dozens of hectares of woodlands across Lebanon, just weeks after earlier forest fires devastated mountainous parts of the country, an army spokesman said Wednesday. “A total of 1,542 dunums (154 hectares) were destroyed on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, in addition to the 807 dunums (81 hectares) burnt on Monday,” the spokesman told […]

When Prue and Grahame Taylor were searching for a retirement hobby 12 years ago, they found their answer in olives. By Melanie Allan, The pair sold their successful textiles importing business in 1997 and threw themselves into their next venture. The idea of planting olive trees on their four hectare plot on Waiheke Island stemmed […]

By Britt Smith, A VICTORIAN olive oil company with a Lara estate has won the gong for best exporter at the NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence. Boundary Bend Limited trumped four other finalists, dominating across all categories including quality of marketing plan, product development and profitable entry into a new market. Boundary Bend’s chairman Rob […]

“A tree will produce and produce. You can neglect it, abuse it, forget about it, not water it and it’ll still produce olives,” says Dan Flynn, a U.C. Davis scientist. They stand as immovable sentinels of the past. Many of these giant mission olive trees are almost four stories tall and at nearly a century […]