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<pre>Brian,

We have spoken to the local processor at Mt Compass here in SA, who has told
us that we would do well to plant table olives as he cannot get enough and
does not know of enough being planted to make up his deficit. He has
assured us, knowing that we will not be supplying for some years, that he
will take all that we can grow. A few others in the industry in SA have
also told us we are going the right way, so we hope they are correct as we
do not really want to put our money into the wrong type of olives. Everyone
seems to be going to oil. Are we wrong and should we be changing our minds
before it is too late? I might talk to Susan Sweeney at Primary Industries
again as we can still change if need be.

Thanks for your concern.

Trudy Hollinshead

Brian Chatterton wrote:

> I agree - putting all the pollinators on one side is taking a big chance
> that the wind is always blowing from the same direction. Here the
> recommendation is about 60 m in every direction but most people have
> more than that.
>
> I was interested that you are planting mostly table olives. It
> seems to me (but people in the grove in Oz will have more precise info)
> that there are now enough table olive trees in the ground in Oz to
> satisfy the market a number of times over. It seems to me a classic
> economic cycle where the delay between planting and production means
> planting goes on when there is already a surplus in the pipeline. Oz
> already produces a very large part of the table olive market
> domestically while it is only a small percentage of the oil market that
> is producted locally. What are the export prospects? There is ample
> evidence that table olives make poor oil.
>
> Cheers Brian Chatterton (Castel di Fiori, TR, ITALIA)
>
>
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