{"id":2797,"date":"2023-06-12T14:30:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:30:29","slug":"olive-harvest-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/2023\/06\/12\/olive-harvest-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Olive Harvest 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just last week we finished harvesting the olives. We were lucky this year. No major delays due to rain. No mechanical problems at the processing plant. No tractor repairs. Not to say that the harvest was without issues. It wouldn’t be agriculture if there wasn’t something to deal with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This years’ issue was climate related. Like much of Uruguay, we had unusual weather. Spring came late and abruptly, the same for fall. This weather pattern heavily affected olive maturation. As in years past, we started harvesting olives at the beginning of April. We typically start while fruit is still a bit green as by the time we manage to touch the more than 5,000 trees we are racing to not harvest over-ripe fruit. This year? This year the full harvest took 9 weeks. Much of the fruit was the same light green at the end as it was when we started. The Arbequina olives were stuck to the trees, making harvesting those trees more time consuming than usual. To make sure we didn’t lose the Picual olives to rot, as they drop very easily, we harvested them in the middle of the harvest instead of waiting until the end. Surprisingly, the Picual were no more ripe than the Arbequina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All told, we harvest 145,000 kilos of olives. Our largest harvest yet. The plantation is now around 15 years old and the trees are considered mature. Olive trees do continue to grow and are very long lived, but in terms of production, the trees are now considered to be in full production. We should see alternating years of production with one year moderately lower and the next similar to this year. That is if sun, rain, and soil conditions cooperate! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cosecha de aceitunas 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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La semana pasada terminamos la cosecha de aceitunas. Tuvimos mucha suerte este a\u00f1o. No demoramos por la lluvia. Sin dificultad a la almazara. El tractor quedo bien. No te digo que la cosecha paso sin complicaciones. \u00bfNo ser\u00eda la agr\u00edcola, sino abia algo, la verdad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Este a\u00f1o el clima complico todo. Como mucho de Uruguay, tuvimos un tiempo medio raro. La primavera llego tarde y sin noticia, lo mismo por el oto\u00f1o, y complico mucho la maduraci\u00f3n de la fruta. Como en a\u00f1os pasados, empezamos la cosecha el primer parte de abril. Normalmente, empezamos con la fruta un poco verde. La cosecha lleva tiempo suficiente que al fin estamos muy apurados a terminar cosechar los 5,000 \u00e1rboles antes que las aceitunas est\u00e1n podridos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bfEste a\u00f1o? Este a\u00f1o la cosecha llevo nueve semanas enteras. Y mucha de la fruta quedo el verde mismo cuando empezamos. Los arbequinos fueron bien pegados a los \u00e1rboles y llevo mucho m\u00e1s tiempo a cosechar que fue normal. Para no perder el picual, como esta variedad calle muy f\u00e1cilmente, hicimos una pausa con la cosecha de las arbequinas y cosechamos todo el picual. Normalmente, esperamos a cosechar el picual al fin de la cosecha. Nos sorprendi\u00f3, la fruta del picual fue no m\u00e1s maduro que los de la arbequina. Toda la fruta quedo bien verde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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En total, cosechamos 145,000 kilos de aceitunas. La cosecha m\u00e1s grande todav\u00eda. La plantaci\u00f3n tiene alrededor 15 a\u00f1os y los \u00e1rboles est\u00e1n contados maduros. Olivos siguen a crecer y viven muchos a\u00f1os, pero por el tema de producci\u00f3n, est\u00e1n considerados maduros. En los a\u00f1os que viene debemos tener producci\u00f3n normal en a\u00f1os alternos. Entre los a\u00f1os normales, ser\u00edan una cosecha m\u00e1s baja. \u00a1Pero, como siempre, tendremos una cosecha solamente si el sol, la lluvia, y el suelo nos permitan!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just last week we finished harvesting the olives. We were lucky this year. No major delays due to rain. No mechanical problems at the processing plant. No tractor repairs. Not to say that the harvest was without issues. It wouldn’t be agriculture if there wasn’t something to deal with. This years’ issue was climate related. … Continue reading Olive Harvest 2023<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34327803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[84274],"tags":[2320636],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olives","tag-olive-harvest","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BeCJ-J7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34327803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2812,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}