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For your diary: National EVOO and Table Olive Competition dates
The key dates for the AOA’s 2015 EVOO and Table Olive Competitions have been announced as follows: EVOO entries close on Friday, 21 August, with judging being carried out on Friday and Saturday, 4-5 September in Adelaide. Preliminary results will be uploaded to the...
ONZ Certification
The 2015 harvest has commenced in Northland, with growers reporting pleasing crop loads. The Olives New Zealand Certification program, in conjunction with the oil testing service at Wagga Wagga (Aust), officially starts on 1 May. All ONZ members will received...
The olive oil underworld
It continues to be sold. I continue to be amazed. Pomace olive oil is what I'm talking about, in all its overpriced toxic splendour. The fact that something has the words olive and oil written on it, but is also freakily well-priced, is naturally going to have...
Organic market development funding
If you’re in the Balonne and Border Rivers regions of Queensland, there’s funding currently available to help understand and develop markets. The Queensland Government’s High Value Horticulture Value Chains project is offering a co-investment funding scheme, providing...
Registrations open for organic trade show
Attendee registrations have now opened for the Naturally Good Expo, a business event for the certified organic and natural products industry. The expo is not open to the general public; it is strictly trade only for retail buyers, distributors, importers/exporters,...
