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<pre>Andrew,
re "feral" olive problems. Nice note you sent.
I presume that you are aware of the little bit of research we at HVO have
done on feral olive movement? If not you may be interested in coming in and
looking at the poster one day. I think the "Olive Press" ran an article on
it also. Basically, we (Dr. Graham Collins et al - not me!) looked at a
remote group of olives on KI and found that they did NOT move around as we
would have expected from bird dropping of seed (maybe). 'Maybe' since we
are not sure what result we might get elsewhere due to the nature of the
experimental setup. eg the local birds may not eat those olives for some
reason - however I think they were Frantoio stock. 'Maybe' for lots of
similar nit picking reasons that we cannot defend yet.

Anyway, if you are interested then come and have a look at our setup. Ring
me on 83036652 9 to about 6 else at home 83449161 'till 10pm. I could mail
you a copy of the paper and article.

Bob Barrett, Lecturer Olive Production & Marketing, Waite campus, Plant
Research Centre.

At 08:28 AM 18/12/01 +1030, you wrote:
>While it is claimed that the "wild" or "feral" olives around South
>Australia are the result of birds dropping seeds and foxes doing the
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