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By C. Jerome Crow, CORNING – Once again the Olive City pulled out all the stops to celebrate its queen crop. Friday, the 17th Annual Olive Festival kicked off with a parade and was then followed by the Corning Does it Bedder bed races. Taking top honors in the men’s category was the team.

By Andreae Down, You know what to do when life gives you lemons. But what if it’s barrels of olives instead — and capers and roasted red peppers? More precisely, what do you do with the barrels? If you’re George Gebelein, you go into the rain barrel business. Not that he ever intended it that […]

California farmers are making a big push, planting tens of thousands of trees By George Raine, It was Julio Cesar’s first day planting trees in the olive orchard in the Sacramento Valley and he already had it down to a science: Dig a hole half a shovel deep, place the root ball attached to a […]

By Blake Nicholson, Once beloved as windbreaks, trees banned in some states Russian olive trees, which have sunk their roots in soil from the Mediterranean to northern China, are finding U.S. soil less and less hospitable. Some state officials, who think the trees suck up large amounts of water and crowd out native vegetation, now […]

By Harry Cline, California olive crop forecast is for 50,000 tons, down 65 percent from last year’s crop of 142,000 tons. Bearing acreage is estimated at 31,000 for a yield of 1.61 tons per acre, down 64 percent from last year’s yield. Olive growers across California are reporting that the 2006 olive crop is the […]