Total, partial and no tilling and bare soil year round

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. This is the oldest technique of all. Tilling is done several times a year, which totally eliminates weeds. Tilling is more or less deep, depending on the time of year, to improve infiltration and diminish...

Use of the Talcum Powder in Olive Oil Production

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Authorized talcum powder acts as an adjuvant. We understand adjuvants as: different substances which are added to industrial processes in order to improve them, obtaining better work conditions and/or...

Olive Tree Nutrition: Phosphorous and Potassium

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Phosphorous Phosphorous is involved in the reactions that need metabolic energy, such as sprouting, growth, fruit setting and maturation. Low leaf levels of phosphorous produces short sprouts and leaves, low...

Luminous nutrition and adequate water are all Olive tree leaves need

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. In the leaves (and unripe fruit as well) photosynthesis occurs, which consists of the fixation of carbonic-anhydride that is taken up with water from the roots by the stomas. Light acts as a source of energy...

The olive tree as xerophytic plant

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. The wild olive tree is found in the entire Mediterranean basin. Broadly speaking, the Mediterranean climate is defined by its hot, dry summers with relatively rainy and mild fall and spring, yet there is...

Olive Tree Nutrition: Boron, Zinc and Iron

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. ¿Do you know these three elements that influence in the olive tree nutrition?

Olive Tree Disease: Emplomado and Tuberculosis

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Emplomado This is a fungal disease whose symptoms and control techniques are similar to repilo.

Olive tree common plagues

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Most common olive tree plagues

Maximize soil infiltration in your olive grove

Soil is the physical support of the tree, and where it fulfills all its water needs and a large part of mineral nutrients. Soil management needs to be more efficient in dry farming than in irrigated systems because if watering is impossible, the tree has to fulfill absolutely...

Olive Tree Disease: Verticillium Dahliae

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Verticillium Dahliae is a disease provoked by a fungus that affects the vascular system. It obstructs the vascular bundles that transport sap and gradually causes whole branches to dry out and can even kill...

Nueva llamada a la acción

Subscribe to our blog!
and you will get the latest olive oil news delivered to your inbox

Recent Posts

Free PDF Download: Your First Step on the Road to Olive Oil