Disappointing summer affects olive yields

AGUSTIN DE LA PARRA: Anne Stanimiroff (right) has a six-strong team of pickers on Auckland’s Waiheke Island.

Olive picking on Waiheke Island has now started but elsewhere in the country it’s going to be a late and lean harvest. Moutohora Estate is an olive grove situated in Thornton … looking at a 90% reduction in the harvest yield this year because of intense storms in the Bay of Plenty during March.