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The region’s olive trees are bursting with fruit this year, after a low yield in 2007 due to drought. The olive industry is looking up for Eyre Peninsula, with a record amount of olives, according to olive press operator and olive grower Peter Green. Mr Green started harvesting his olives with the mechanical harvester he […]

As South Australia endures the 15th day of its heatwave, Eyre Peninsula olive growers are battling in the lead up to next month’s harvest. At Lincoln Olive View Estate, production is expected to drop by as much as 10,000 tonnes, with some trees bearing just a few kilos of olives. Grower Kevin Burner says he […]

By Callum Jones, Olive farming is not usually associated with Northampton, but one resident has received national recognition in Australia for producing an award-winning olive oil. Chris Perkins, aged 59, of Kingsthorpe, was brought up in an agricultural family in the Australian state of Victoria but came back to England when he was a teenager. […]

By Shane Starling, Australian olive leaf extract pioneer, Olive Products Australia (OPA), has gained a European-first distribution deal in the UK for its high-antioxidant liquid supplement. While olive leaf extracts already exist on the European market – predominantly in cosmeceutical formulations as well as teas and pill-form food supplements – OPA’s offering is one of […]

Western Victorian olive groves will yield 1000 per cent more than last year. Drought in 2007 meant fruit couldn’t set on the trees. Grove owner Deirdre Baum, from Laharum, says this season the trees are healthy and bearing fruit because of timely rain. “This year, the trees have had bit of rain at the critical […]