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Old November 24th, 2000, 06:11 PM
Stan Kailis
 
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Re: Re: Olive Returns

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<pre>Dear All

We have growers in the prime wine area Margaret River selling EVO
varietal oils at $100/litre.

Working back if maths are right

- if a young tree (4-5years) gives 20kg fruit = 4litres of olive oil =
$400
250 trees = 1ha = 5000kg fruit = 1000litres of oil = $100000

I have been asked by many what number of trees do you need to make money
out of olives - my first answer is none

After being told by the enquirer - you know what I mean - I then answer
- one

Well I may be a little out looking at my calculation above, but I am
nearly right when you are considering the return from a 500ha olive
grove with 300 trees/ha.

Stan Kailis
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