The Australian olive industry endured challenging weather conditions which has impacted the 2023 harvest. Unseasonably cold, wet weather resulted in a shorter growing season, slower ripening of fruit and a delayed harvest, according to the President of the Australian Olive Oil Association, David Valmorbida. “Early in the season the industry was poised for a promising harvest,…
Category: Harvesting
Considerations for Mechanical Harvesting in Olive Trees
In recent years, Olive producers have encountered recurrent obstacles caused by labor shortages. One way to address this issue is to mechanise processes within your grove operation which may include but are not limited to olive oil processing, mechanised pruning & mechanised harvesting. The logistics of implementing a new strategy do require careful consideration when…
How to Prune for Mechanical Olive Shaker Harvesting?
Information has been provided by Barilla Contract Orchard Harvesting to provide insightful tips to achieving a successful and efficient olive harvest through pruning techniques to ensure an efficient olive harvest. Why prune olive trees? There are many reasons why you would want to incorporate a plan for pruning, here are a few reasons why; To…
Factors affecting your olive harvest
For olive oil production, it is very important not to irrigate for the weeks leading up to harvest as the moisture content of the fruit can be too high, the optimum moisture content is 50%. Plump olives are sometimes full of water, not oil. The high water content makes the extraction of oil more difficult…
The importance of Boron & Calcium in Olive Trees
In the lead up to flowering, you need to ensure your trees have adequate nutrition, particularly of Boron and Calcium. A lack of Boron and Calcium may lead to decreased fruit set, oil quality and oil stability. The application of Boron and Calcium can never be overstressed. It is a requirement for your olive trees. In Brief A…
4 Factors That Will Set You Up For Next Olive Harvest
Marcelo Berlanda and I were talking about the need for proper implementation of key areas of grove management. It must be stressed that if any of these areas are lacking then production in your grove can be greatly affected, even to the extent of non-production of a commercial grove. In reflection, this is the…
Need labour for your olive harvest?
Are your friends and family less able to help when time presses on for the Olive Harvest? We often hear how difficult it can be to find sufficient labour at this time. You will be happy to hear that there is a service that looks to facilitate matching Corporations and Growers with Workers for variable…
Benchmarking: How to produce more olive than 8T/ha in an olive grove
Each and every grower in the industry has different results in their grove. Why, when olive trees are so hardy? And why are some making a decent profit, while others are struggling to meet costs?