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The AOA’s extension program for 2024 started off on a high note this week, with strong attendance – and great Q&A - at Wednesday’s informative webinar: Co-ops 101 for Olive Growers, exploring the opportunities provided by co-operative business operations.
There’s more on the topic happening later this month, with a follow-up webinar on the Matakana Olive Co-operative.
This webinar will build on the foundation information on co-operatives, with Mahurangi Olives (New Zealand) owner David Sullivan sharing his experience of the successful Matakana Olive Co-operative in practice.
Over its lifetime, Matakana Olive Co-operative encompassed between four and ten groves, ranging in size from 1200 trees down to a few hundred, with a total of around 2,500 trees. Members maintained and harvested their own groves, with the oil pressed at the one mill. The combined oil stock was evaluated, filtered, stored and bottled by members in a central purpose-built facility, and sold under the Matakana Olive Co-operative label, with members paid from the net proceeds of sales based on their percentage of the total for the harvest period.
Run as a collective, the Matakana Olive Co-operative provided a shared-cost, viable production and distribution model for a regional group of boutique olive oil producers.
Details:
Monday, 19 February, 11.00am AEDT
Register here.
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