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<pre>Some of the items posted on the AOG olive growers forum
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1 Cobram estate now No1 Australian olive oil exporter

2 EV Olives from North Victoria wins deal in Germany

3 new $3M Tatiara olive processing plant in operation for 2004

4 new $350K 18.5 tonne argentinian harvester for Bounday Bend

5 Paul Miller re-confirms crop estimates as in AOA Strategic Plan

6 OSA estimate 2004 South Australian tonnage to better than whole of
Australia 2003

7 Barkworth Manager Ken Schutz advises 10% crop loss due to frost, has
tried 'natural' warm water

8 Lisa Rowntree advises 2004 crop Adelaide plains "not as much of what
we were originally expecting"

9 EU parliament knocks back restructure to olive oil subsidy

10 Lisa Rowntree states that there is a "huge harvest is expected this
year (2004)"

11 Lisa Rowntree advises that "boutique olive oil plantations likely to
decline"

12 Don Thomsen (Thomson Fruit Growers) on mechanical harvesters "but as
soon a tree gets too large you can't - it basically takes a third of the
tree off by smashing it."

13 RIRDC report into levies finds that "It is, however, clear that
existing .... farmers are not necessarily the beneficiaries of the....
levies collected from them and matched with Commonwealth funds in
2000-2001"
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