Good evening,

From the South Burnett district of south east Queensland it looks extraordinarily good. I have two small groves of 400 and 800 trees respectively. The 400 tree grove has had no supplementary water for two years, the bore is almost dry and as it serves the homestead and the inbye cattle troughs the olives had to miss out. However, there appears to be an excellent crop on most of the trees, Manzanillo and Frantoio. The larger grove has been irrigated during the winter and the Mz look excellent with smaller crops on the other Cv. In 2006 we only received 303mm of rain compared to our average of just under 700mm.

The olive tree does its best to look after us despite our best efforts to neglect it!

Dan