Table olive crop comparable to 2012, growers say

Table olive growers in California expect this year’s crop to be about the same size as last year’s, which marked a bit of a recovery for farmers after a series of failed crops, an industry official said. While an official crop estimate isn’t due out until August, Central Valley growers are reporting their orchards are on about the same pace overall as in 2012, when they produced more than 80,000 tons of olives, said Adin Hester, president of the Olive Growers Council of California in Visalia.