This year’s harvest not as bad as the last one, council wagers

Olive Council (IOC) predicts olive oil production for this harvest season will be somewhere between the last one (the worst in nearly twenty years), and the one before that (the best of all time). If it seems the Madrid-based intergovernmental organisation is not exactly going out on a limb in its latest forecast, it reflects the high level of uncertainty about the 2015/2016 harvest that will begin next month and the difficulty in predicting what will happen with so many moving parts across vast regions, the council said in its August newsletter.