Meetings & Presentations 2009

Improving Productivity through Better Business Planning for California Table Olive Growers
Glenn County Farm Bureau, Orland, CA, Sept. 8, 2009
Sponsors: Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers (TAA), UC Cooperative Extension, UC Davis Plant Sciences, Glenn County

Mechanical Harvesting of California Black Table Olives (PowerPoint to pdf)
Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
Contributors: Uriel Rosa, Jacqueline Burns, Sergio Castro, Kitren Glozer, Neil O'Connell, Bill Krueger, Soh Min, J.-X. Guinard, John Ferguson, Peter Kaleko, Paul Vossen, Jaime Ortiz, Jorge LaDux, Fabricio Fernandex, Peter Searles, Celia Rosseaux Searles, Dave and Karen Smith of DSE, Rocky Hill Ranch, Burreson Ranch, Bell Carter Olives, Musco Family Olive Co., Finca La Bella and Maqtec, Erick Nielsen, Matt Coe, Don Mayo

What Yield, Harvest, Cost, and Price are Profitable? (PowerPoint to pdf)
Karen Klonsky, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis

California Table Olive Orchards of the Future (PowerPoint to pdf)
William Krueger, UCCE Glenn County

Sensory Characteristics and Consumer Acceptance of Mechanically HarvestedOlives (PowerPoint to pdf)
Soh Min Lee and Jean-Xavier Guinard, Dept. of Food Science &Technology and UC Davis Olive Center, and Louise Ferguson, UCCE Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis