California Table olive growers to receive higher prices
California table olive growers will receive prices for their 2008 crop that are 5% to 10% higher than last year’s crop, but the crop is off by nearly half.
The Olive Growers Council on Thursday announced agreement with the Bell Carter Olive Co. in Corning and Musco Family Olive Co. in Tracy for table olive prices for this year.
The crop is estimated at 55,000 to 60,000 tons.
Prices for the manzanillo variety are $1,210 per ton for the extra large, large and medium; $650 for the small, $400 for the petite, $350 for subpetite and $10 for undersize culls.
For the sevillano, it’s $1,050 per ton for super colossal, colossal and jumbo; $350 for extra large “C,” $300 for extra large “L” and $10 for undersize culls.
Adin Hester, president of the growers’ bargaining council, said the group was “a bit disappointed. … Growers need pricing information much earlier so they can make better plans regarding fertilizer, pruning and insect and weed control.”
He said the cost to raise olives has risen sharply this year, as much as 30%.
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Australian Olive growers suffer bug setback
Olive growers say crop losses from an infestation of olive lace bugs and fungal disease are worse than first thought, with yields down by about 50 per cent.
The Hunter Olive Association‘s vice-president, Mike Wilson, says about 450 tonnes of olives were processed for oil this year, down from 880 tonnes in 2007.
There was also a 30 per cent drop in olives processed for pickled fruit.
Mr Wilson says it is a setback for many growers.
“Each year we expect the industry to grow slightly because more trees come online and the trees get a bit bigger and we get better at it,” he said.
“We had a very bad problem with a fungal disease that hit the table olives very, very badly, we had a problem with olive lace bugs, and unfortunately the chemical sprays that work weren’t permitted for use, and the chemical sprays that we were permitted to use didn’t work because it was raining.”
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Century-old olive trees saved by young businessman
Sedat Kirt,
Shocked by the destruction of a forest of ancient olive trees amid the environmental degradation of a coal mine, a young businessman from Datça has initiated an extraordinary eco-project.
Building engineer Timur Kabaklarlı, 32, now owns 1,500 olive trees after seeing the centuries-old trees being cut for coal mining. During a business trip to Bodrum in February, Kabaklarlı stopped off to see the ancient city of Stratoika, near the Yeşilbağcılar town of Yatağan.
“I was chatting with a guard and he told me about a nearby coal mine. I had never seen a coal mine, so I went to check it out,” Kabaklarlı said. “The scene was terrifying! Bulldozers and trucks were everywhere. The trees were being destroyed one after the other. The villagers were bustling around to save at least the bodies of their olive trees to sell to local bakeries.”
After the first shock, our young businessman thought that he must help those old olive trees survive. Although he had no experience with olive planting, he decided to buy some of the oldest trees from the villagers. However, it was not easy to leave the rest to be cut, which were aged 50 to 400 years. After all the bargaining, he found that he had 1,500 trees to move from the mining area.
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Annual Paso Robles Olive Festival returns on Saturday, August 23, 2008
Paso Robles Main Street Association presents the 5th Annual Paso Robles Olive Festival
Saturday, August 23, 2008
11am – 4pm
Downtown Paso Robles City Park
- Free Olive Oil and Olive product sampling
- Producers from all over California
- Olive Oil Tasting lead by the California Olive Oil Council
- Culinary Row serving great food
- Wine & Beer Tasting
- Open Olive Dish Cooking Contest
- Free Olive Oil Ice Cream
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Dwarda Ridge top of West Australian olive table
Dwarda Ridge Estate of Boddington won the Best WA Table Olive and Don Vica Pty Ltd of Fremantle won the Best of Show in the 2008 West Australian Olive Council (WAOC) Table Olive Competition.
Commenting at an awards function yesterday at Edgecombe Brothers Winery, Henley Brook, chief Judge and chair of the judging panel, Professor Stan Kailis, said he was pleased this year to award gold medals to three products, silver to 10 and bronze to seven.
“That 80pc of entries were awarded medals indicates improved quality of table olives and it’s encouraging to have entries from as far as New Zealand and Queensland,” he said.
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