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What hand-picking olives really costs, and when a harvester pays off
Before looking at the price of an olive harvester it is worth doing another sum: what the harvest costs you the way you do...
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Less oil and half the price: the numbers the 2026 harvest opens with
Italian production is down by around 20%, yet there are 233 thousand tonnes of oil sitting in warehouses and extra virgin at origin is...
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Extra virgin is not a date on the calendar: it is a number. Four, in fact
What the law actually says, what the research says about the maturity index and polyphenols, and where the window lies in which an oil...
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Ready for the 2026 olive harvest? The checklist for the last three weeks
Clean ground, nets counted, crew ready and the mill booked. But the real difference is whether the harvester starts first time or turns out...
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Italian olive cultivars from north to south: traits, properties and how to harvest them
Twenty-six varieties from Lake Garda to Sicily: fruit shape and size, ripening time, detachment force and oil character. With 1:1 scale plates and the...
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September: the grape harvest ends, the olive harvest is prepared
In the field September is the hinge month: the grape harvest closes and four or five weeks are left before the olives. It is...
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When to prune olive trees: the right calendar and the mistakes that cost you the harvest
Pruning an olive tree in the wrong month, or the wrong way, costs you fewer olives the following year. You start in early December,...
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