An olive mill works about forty days a year and sits idle for the other three hundred. That single fact explains the…
By Laura Kurtzman, After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, the University of California, Davis established a research department that led to…
A California campus turned its nuisance olive trees into an oil programme, then published research that embarrassed half the imported oil on…
What a modern olive-growing course actually teaches: planting density, irrigation, fruit fly, harvest timing and milling. The syllabus is short, the density…
The olive fruit fly eats only olives, ruins table fruit outright and quietly wrecks oil chemistry. Its biology, what its larvae do…