After two years of drought, disease, and soaring prices, the olive oil sector is bouncing back with a strong 2024/25 harvest.

Olive trees. Not too surprising since there is a 3,000-year-old olive tree in Crete that is still producing olives.

The tree killer is a bacterium called xylella fastidiosa. It has killed millions of olive trees in Italy and is now threatening Spain and Greece. These countries produce 95% of Europe's olive oil.

Q: I have a 4-year-old Anna apple tree that was broken in a windstorm in June 2021. Since the top end of the main trunk was broken, I decided to tie it back in place and see if it would recover.

Men wearing orange vests march in an olive-growers protest in Rome, Feb. 14, 2018, to demand urgent measures in favor of olive oil producers impacted by hard frosts and Xylella, an olive tree disease.

The infected trees were uprooted because they were found in a buffer zone: By creating a firewall, the Italian government is trying to prevent the disease from spreading further north. But even ...

An olive tree burns near Trepuzzi, a town in the Italian region of Apulia devastated by a lethal olive tree disease. (Photo by Salvatore Mongiò via Courthouse News) This “phase of destruction,” as ...

The famous olive trees of Puglia are ravaged by disease – here's how we can save them A common, humble field bug is spreading a disease that has already infected millions of olive trees in Italy.