Great conditions for olives this season

The olive harvest is off to a good start with the hot dry summer combining with the industry’s maturing trees to provide lots of high quality fruit. Olives New Zealand president Andrew Taylor said the harvest began in the far North in late March and will finish up in Canterbury in July. He said it was the second consecutive summer that the industry had had ideal weather conditions for growing olives, which had led to excellent fruit quality, and the odds of great oil were high.