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<pre>> Mike,
> Your olive industry levy is working for you!! We just finished a PhD
> project supported by AOA funds variously.

Just as well I renewed my subscription the other week!
>
> I don't know if you got to the olive conf. in Adelaide or not but I think
> that report may have been presented by our group. I was away in NZ and did
> not go.
>
> No matter. I dont have the info you want to hand right now and I don't
> know which parts of it are yet public so I will need to check. I presume
> that you have ordered the trees anyway? If you have then I would like to
> defer a reply to you until after Xmas. Is that possible? No time before
for
> me. I'm setting up next years courses, bookings and printing, etc.
>

No problem. I haven't ordered yet.

> That would also give me time to get right what I think is the case. The
> bits that are embargoed are not that important but will be thus so that we
> (or AOA) do not release info that MIGHT be wrong because we have not done
> sufficient testing. We have got caught (internally) by thinking that a
> couple of years data was giving a good picture on a few things. Not
> serious, but it makes us very, very cautious. Its your money, not mine.

That's no problem at all. We will be planting in batches of a couple of
thousand over three years, so there is plenty of time to change direction
before the final lot go in.

>
> Could I ask where you got your trees from and where you will be getting
> the new ones from? Useful so I can compare what the seller thought it was
> versus what we think it is (both may be wrong!). That would help with the
> x-poll suggestions to you.
>

The previous trees, the ones that are not performing as well as I hoped,
mainly came from Olives Australia, although we did source some locally from
a small local nursery (since closed down) but I believe they took their
cuttings from trees originally supplied by Olives Australia. There may be
other factors at work too, as we have had poor fruit set right across the
valley, even in groves that have self-fertile Manzanillo, or a good mixture
of varieties. I'm just trying to cover all bases.

As for new ones, well we are open to offers!

Regards,

Mike.
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