Olive trees are tolerant, hardy, resilient and can survive throughout prolonged drought periods and weather extremes. Olive Growing all over the world are suffering adverse effects of climatic factors including water scarcity, prolonged higher temperatures, and high irradiance. Production losses due to drought stress are felt by today’s olive producer especially in these times of…
Category: Irrigation
How to flush your irrigation lines?
Flushing constitutes an important maintenance routine. In micro-irrigation systems, provisions must be made to flush mains, submains and lateral lines to remove settled sediments. The mainline should be flushed at scour valve locations, whilst submains are flushed at slushing points usually located at the ends of the lines while the system is running and allow…
Water Calculation in Olives by Marcelo Berlanda
At the Australian Olive Conference, Geelong during October 2016, Marcelo Berlanda delivered a talk about Calculating Water for Olive Tree usage. His talk was cut short due to time constraints and this is the completion of that presentation.