May 2023

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May

Olive flowering forecast 2023 Part 2

#Olive #flowering 🌸 forecast 📈 Part 2: flowering will start in earnest on Thursday, 4 May in parts of southern #Italy and #Greece and western #Turkey and #Syria. Regional forecasts show olive #pollen will reach >1000 grams/m3 in these areas. Local forecasts in Italy show olive pollen will increase on Friday in Puglia (Brindisi) and Sardinia (Cagliari) and on Sunday

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May

Olive flowering forecast 2023 Part 1

The #olive #pollen 🌸 forecast over Europe for the next few days shows high pollen counts (purple areas, >1000 grains/m3) over southwestern #Spain and #Portugal as olive trees come into bloom. A big problem is that #flowering is starting at a time of extreme #heatwaves in the southern Iberian Peninsula. Weather forecasts for the region through 6 May show several

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May

Olive outlook Europe

#Olive trees are coming into bloom across the Mediterranean over the next few weeks. As the new season kicks off, it’s a good time to calibrate expectations for the year to come. The 2021-2031 EU Agricultural Outlook forecast #oliveoil production would grow by about 20% in the next decade. However, in 2022/23 there was a record-low harvest of 1.4 million

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