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By Geoff Easdown, HIGH-INCOME earners tipped an estimated $1.26 billion into managed agricultural investments this year to offset their taxes. Forest lots, olives, almonds and cattle herds dominated managed investment schemes with sales showing a 20 per cent lift on last year.

A New Zealand-designed and built olive harvester has begun to comb the crop out of trees on Roger Armstrong’s Nelson groves this season.

York’s marvellous Mediterranean style climate is perfect for growing olives and from April to July the Olive Harvest is in full swing.

By Helen Murdoch North Canterbury olive growers have sweated in the snow this week trying to complete their harvests before more frosts bite.

A Tasmanian olive grower has patented a new oil processing technique to produce what he calls “ultra virgin” olive oil.