Publications

For more information on olives, visit the UC Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center.

General Sources

• Olive Processing Waste Management: Summary
  

       Nicole Sturzenberger, UC Davis Olive Center

• Olive Profile

       Agricultural Marketing Resource Center

• Safe Methods for Home Pickling Olives

       Revised by Sylvia Yada, Scientist, and Linda J. Harris, Extension Specialist in Microbial Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, UC
       Davis, working from original publication by George York, Professor Emeritus, and Reese Vaughn, Department of Food Science and Technology, UC
       Davis

• Descriptive Analysis and Consumer Testing of Imported and Domestic Sliced Table Olives

      Soh Min Lee and Jean-Xavier Guinard,  Department of Food Science and Technology and the Olive Center, University of California, Davis,

• 2008 Olive Center Annual Report
  Dan Flynn, UC Davis Olive Center

• Olive Day 2006: California Olive Industry Today (PowerPoint to pdf)
  Christi Darling, California Olive Committee. 28-slide presentation

Olive Oil: Organic Olive Production Manual
Paul M. Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co., 2007 (112 pp.). UC ANR Pub. 3505. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase

Olive Production Manual - 2nd Edition
G. Steven Sibbett, UCCE Tulare Co.and Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. Plant Sciences, UC Davis. 2005 (118 pp.)UC
ANR Pub. 3483. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase

Olive Oil (Olea europaea L.)
Center for New Crops and Plants Products, Purdue University

Production Economics

• What’s Extra Virgin? An Economic Assessment of California’s Olive Oil Labeling Law

      Christopher R. Gustafson and Travis J. Lybbert, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, 2009

• Olive Oil: A Rediscovered California Crop
  Olga Senise Barrio and Hoy Carman, Dept. of Ag. and Resource Economics, UC Davis. 2005 (21 pp.) in Agricultural and Resource Economics Vol.8 No. 5.
• Sample Costs to Establish a Super-High Density Olive Orchard and Produce Olive Oil (pdf)
  P.M.Vossen UCCE, Sonoma Co., J.H.Connell, UCCE, Butte Co., W.H. Krueger, UCCE, Glenn Co., K.M. Klonsky, UCCE, and P.Livingston, Dept. Ag. and Resource Economics, UC Davis, 2007 (21 pp.)
  
  

Olive Fruit Fly and Olive Knot Research

• Olive Fly (pdf)
  Paul Vossen, Lucia Varela, and Alexandra Devarenne, UCCE Sonoma Co., 2004 (6 pp.)
  
• Olive Fruit Fly: UC IPM Pest Note (pdf)
  F.G. Zalom, UCCE Entomology Dept., UC Davis, R.A. Van Steenwyk, UCCE Insect Biology Dept., UC Berkeley, and
  H.J. Burrack, Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis. 2003 (4 pp.)
• Olive Fruit Fly: Biology, Control and Research Update 2006 (PowerPoint to pdf)
  Marshall W. Johnson, UCCE Entomology Dept., UC Riverside. 58-slide presentation
• Olive Fruit Fly: Biology, Control, and Research Update 2004 (PowerPoint to pdf)
  Marshall W. Johnson, UCCE, Entomology Dept., UC Riverside. 46-slide presentation 
• Olive Fruit Fly: EPA Reg.for GF-120 NF Naturalyte Fruit Fly Bait
  Dept. of Pesticide Regulation, California EPA. 2005 
• Olive Fruit Fly: GF-120 NF Naturalyte Fruit Fly Bait (pdf)
  Supplemental labeling, Dow AgroSciences (2 pp.) 
• Olive Fruit Fly: Observations 2004, 2005 and Plans for 2006 (Powerint to pdf)
  Bill Krueger, UCCE Glenn and Tehama Co. 4-slide presentation 
• Olive Fruit Fly: Populations Measured in Central and Southern California (pdf)
  R.E. Rice, Entomology Dept., UC Davis, P.A. Phillips, UCCE, Central Coast, J. Stewart-Leslie and G.S. Sibbett. 2003 (6 pp.) 
• Olive Fruit Fly: the Spanish "Olipe" Trap for Organic Control of Olive Fruit Fly (pdf)
  Paul Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co. (1 p.)
• Olive Fruit Fly: Update 2004 for Table Olive Industry: OLF Management FAQ's (pdf)
  UC Cooperative Extension and California Olive Committee. 2004 (3 pp.)
• Olive Knot: Pseudomonas syringae, pv. savastoni (PowerPoint to pdf)
  William Krueger, UCCE Glenn Co. 2000. 23-slide presentation
• UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Olive
  UC IPM Online
• UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Olive Fruit fly
  UC IPM Online

 

Nutrition

• Olive Day 2006: Nutrient Considerations for Olives (PowerPoint to pdf)
  Joseph Connell, UCCE Butte Co. 32-slide presentation

 

Production Management

• Effect of Storage Containers on Olive Oil Quality
  Dr Rodney J. Mailer and Kerrie Graham, Australian Government Rural Industries Research and Development Cooperation, Publication No. 09/160, October 2009
  
• Crop Profile for Olives in California
  National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 1999 (14 pp.)
• Mechanical Harvesting of California Table Olives
  University of California website presenting the 5-year research program. Project leader: Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
• Olive Maturity Index Calculator
  Paul Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co. 2006. Download the interactive calculator in Microsoft Excel format
• Olive Maturity Index explained (pdf)
  Paul Vossen, UCCE Sonoma Co., 2006 (2 pp.)
• Olive Oil: First Press Newsletter, oil production; olive orchard culture and pest information
  Paul Vossen's publication website, UCCE Sonoma Co.
• Olive Production for Oil – UC Davis Short Course
  Lodi, California, April 18 & 19, 2008. A collection of PowerPoint presentations and articles from the short course
• Olive Spray Thinning Guidelines (pdf)
  G. Steven Sibbett, UCCE Tulare Co. and William Krueger, UCCE, Glenn Co.1998 (3 pp.) ANR Pub. 7238
• Patch Budding: A Convenient Method for Top-Working Olives (pdf)
  William Krueger, Zachary Heath and Dominic DeLeonardis, UCCE Glenn Co. 2004 (6 pp.) ANR Publicaton 8115
• Physiological Disorder Fact Sheets: Apple, Grape, Olive, Pear, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Stonefruit
  Carlos Crisosto, (ed.) Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
• Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Olive
  Carlos Crisosto, Elizabeth Mitcham, Adel Kader, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
• Tree Crop Physiology Technical Reports for Olive: 2006 to current season
  Kitren Glozer, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis. Several antioxidants were evaluated as treatments to minimize bruising damage caused by mechanical harvesting