Hello to everyone!
With the current olive harvest completed, Casale 3 Danesi is sharing a little look into the how the climate has affected fruit production in Italy. Thankfully, we have been lucky this year and were recently featured in Olive Oil Times, here is the excerpt from the piece:
Further north, Casale 3 Danesi, near Lucca, Tuscany, manages a 450-tree olive orchard and expects a much more bountiful harvest this season than the last
“This year, the weather has been perfect throughout the entire season,” said Henrik Jorgensen, the farm’s owner. “We usually face numerous weather challenges, such as early spring heat followed by sudden freezes, which cause flower loss. But this year, we’ve avoided those issues.”
Additionally, the organic producer has benefited from the absence of the olive fruit fly this year.
“A frost lasting at least three days in winter usually kills most flies below the soil’s surface. This year, we didn’t have any olive flies, which is a great relief,” Jorgensen said.
“When the olive fruit fly is present, we can only use traditional fly traps since we are organic producers,” he added.
Follow the link below for the article and more info from other Italian harvesters!