Fruit and Nut Information
All of the Categories by Fruits & Nuts : Olive
Centers and Programs
- UC Davis Olive Center
Includes 'Best Practices' for growers & oil processors, ongoing research program, UC resources and consumer information
General Sources
- Olive Oil: Organic Olive Production Manual
- Olive Production Manual - 2nd Edition
Paul M. Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co., 2007 (112 pp.). UC ANR Pub. 3505. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase
G. Steven Sibbett, UCCE Tulare Co.and Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. Plant Sciences, UC Davis. 2005 (118 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 3483. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase
Newsletters & Blogs: Farm Advisors - Current Topics
- Crop Currents - Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
- Kern Citrus & Subtropical Fruit - Kern County
- Olive Notes (2011-2012) - Solano county
- Olive Notes - Tulare County
- Orchard Notes - Lake and Medocino Counties
- Pomology Notes - Sutter and Yuba Counties
- The Pomology Post - Madera County
- Topics in Subropics - Blog
- Topics in Subtropics Newsletter - Nine counties in which subtropicals can be grown
Newsletter from Janet Caprile, Farm Advisor, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Primarily cherry, stone fruit, olive, walnut and grape
Newsletter from Craig Kallsen, Kern County Farm Advisor
Newsletter from Carolyn DeBuse, Farm Advisor Emeritus, Solano County
Newsletter by Elizabeth Fichtner, Farm Advisor, Tulare County
Newsletter from Rachel Elkins, Farm Advisor, Lake and Medocino counties. Focus on walnut and pear
Newsletter by Franz Niederholzer, Farm Advisor, Sutter-Yuba Counties. Topics in tree crop production, principally almond and prune.
Newsletter from Brent Holtz, Farm Advisor, Madera County. Topics in tree crop production, including farm safety, irrigation, pest management. Nut crops including almond, stone fruit.
A collaborative blog by UC Farm Advisors and Specialists in subtropical horticulture in California.
Newsletter from the Subtropical Tree Crop Farm Advisors spanning nine counties in California.
non-University of California Resources
- Crop Profile for Olives in California (pdf)
- Olive Oil (Olea europaea L.)
National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 1999 (14 pp.)
Center for New Crops and Plants Products, Purdue University
Organizations
- California Olive Industry
- California Olive Oil Council
Fresno, CA
Berkeley, CA
Production Economics
- Olive Oil: A Rediscovered California Crop (pdf)
Olga Senise Barrio and Hoy Carman, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, UC Davis. 2005 (21 pp.) in Agricultural and Resource Economics Vol.8 No. 5.
Production Management
- Epidemiology & Management of Olive Knot Disease
- Growth Regulators in Orchard Mgt: Technical Reports for Olive: 2006 to 2011
- Mechanical Harvesting of California Table Olives
- Olive Day 2006: Nutrient Considerations for Olives (PowerPoint to pdf)
- Olive Fact Sheet
- Olive Fruit Fly: Information & References
- Olive Knot: Pseudomonas syringae, pv. savastoni (PowerPoint to pdf)
- Olive Maturity Index Calculator
- Olive Maturity Index explained (pdf)
- Olive Production Management Resources
- Olive Spray Thinning Guidelines (pdf)
- Patch Budding: A Convenient Method for for Top-Working Olives (pdf)
- Physiological Disorder Fact Sheets: Apple, Grape, Olive, Pear, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Stonefruit
- Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Olive
- UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Olive
- UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Olive Fruit Fly
UC Research: this project addresses this disease in California. Elizabeth Fichtner and Bruce Kirkpatrick
Kitren Glozer, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis. Several antioxidants were evaluated as treatments to minimize bruising damage caused by mechanical harvesting
University of California website presenting the 5-year research program. Project leader: Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. of Plant Sciences UC Davis
Joseph Connell, UCCE Butte Co. 32-slide presentation
PowerPoint presentations and leaflets by UC researchers
William Krueger, UCCE Glenn Co. 2000. 23-slide presentation
Paul Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co. 2006. download the interactive calculator in Microsoft Excel format
Paul Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co., 2006 (2 pp.)
Paul Vossen, UCCE Farm Advisor, Sonoma Co. Guidelines, publications & seminar and seminars, including Olive For Oil UC short course presentations
G. Steven Sibbett, UCCE Tulare Co. and William Krueger, UCCE, Glenn Co.1998 (3 pp.) ANR Pub. 7238
William Krueger, Zachary Heath and Dominic DeLeonardis, UCCE Glenn Co. 2004 (6 pp.) ANR Publicaton 8115
Carlos Crisosto, (ed.) Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
Carlos H. Crisosto, Elizabeth J. Mitcham, and Adel A. Kader Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
UC IPM Online
UC IPM Online
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