Hello

Why would you assum the olives are dry?? A (DRY) olive is DRY..the dry olive will always produce very little oil.

My olives are extremely juicy.

I measure productivity of my trees by adding the weight of my olives and the weight of oil produced from the olives. example: 2005-6 harvest

2500 kilos of olives
833 kilos of oil

2500 devided by 833=3
That tells me..my trees produce 1 kilo of oil from 3 kilos of olives
33 percent oil..3 to 1 olive to oil ratio ( ONLY the juicest olive can produce such yields)

My trees are the famous Athenolia olives..some of my trees are over 4000 years old and all my sibblings are cut from them..I have stayed very small with only about 500 trees..My trees produce fruit every other year. So prunning is extremly importent.

Also we have the perfect terroir (climate, soil, elevation and the hand of man). Because of all of the above, our area is famous for producing very high yields. Very juicy olives.

My experience has proved that my fellow villagers who have planted other types of olives and now mix their Athenolia with 4-5 other types are producing 1 kilo of oil from 10 kilos of olives. example: 2005-6 harvest

5000 kilos of olives (5 different verieties)
500 kilos of oil

Their olive to oil ratio is 1 kilo of oil from 10 kilos of olives
which means 10 percent olive oil compared with my 33 percent oil.

The reason they planted other types f olives is, 1)they followed the advice of goverment officials..2) advice of producers in areas with mixed verieties 3) people who say it's better to mix olives( to produce different flavors )..4)the advice of stupid olive writers, magazine aditors, chefs, and people who have recently been introduced to the olive oil industry..5) they wanted to have a full harverst every year instead of every other year..like I said before the Athenolia produces olives every other year..their lively hood depends on quantity and NOT QUILITY

Very nice talking with you

Sincerely
Mihalis