How 3 Million Gallons Of Olive Oil Are Produced Per Year In Spain During Crippling Droughts 

That's the old method, vareado (from vara, long stick). The new method, the machine, a belt attached to a reciprocating engine goes round the tree trunk and shakes the hell out of it. If you have seen those "fat loss" machines that shake the belly, same idea. The whole tree, down to the roots, undergoes it's own personal earthshake. And yeah, that tree pretty much owes them cash, In the shape of olives.

@@Fridelain haha good explanation. The timing of him saying no damage was certainly on purpose, video editors am I right haha

That tree shaker makes the tree look like a hurricane or tornado was hitting it. Throw some water and a green screen and you got Hollywood magic.

😂😂

Lol 😂

I can assure you that in the south of the province of Córdoba we had the worst drought in many years.

@@josemiguelmunoz6985 Yes, I did not mean to suggest that there was no drought, only that the images are not illustrative for understanding the drought situation.

I was wondering if anyone else thought the same thing. It was a terrible visual

I was going to say the same thing. Doing this kind of stuff just undermines anything else you say, because you won't get taken seriously. Hence why I stopped watching this video.

Peter im from Jaen s and in the last 40-50 years they have destroyed one of the most beautiful and biodiverse regions in spain with intensive olives plantation there isnt anything hardly lef ..... is incredibe that in 2023 ppl still dont realize that when this region become a dessert will be their fault ...... is disgusting to see how the goverment or even the same citizen hey dont realize the harm they are doing to our country

You are welcome.

They aren't doing it for free

Many farmers only cause it to get worse and worse. Here in Germany, the soil is completely over-fertilized and the soil and groundwater are nitrate-contaminated. And as a solution, they only have to dump more and more fertilizer on it.

@@dummydummy1883 no sht sherlock. lol your name fits you.

Too much of this stuff happens. Same in Croatia. Label says extra virgin oil but the oil is from God knows where..

Source please...

@@bwpyrotechnics1272 extra virgin olive oil can come from anywhere

@@borahaeist3215 I can guarantee 100% that it's not extra virgin because we make it for our needs and you can see the difference between our and other one. It's business..

For that reason is very important to buy only Spanish olive oil with origin certification. I recommend olive oils from the south of the province of Córdoba. The time for the best olive oil is now, between November and February.

i think middle eastern olive oil tastes better

@@seollenda I have tasted olive oils from the middle east, Morocco and Algeria and they are rubbish compared to Spanish olive oil.

@@namenotfound8747 4 euros here

Greek (like Crete) olive oil is also wonderful. I've been to small plantation where the farmer let me taste his olive oil... it was just as good (maybe better) than spanish oil.

@@faesarn I think you have not tasted good Spanish olive oil from Priego de Córdoba or Baena.

Yes, you are right. Keep in mind that we, the olive farmers, look for a optimum oil rate. The perfect oil rate with ripe olives would be 20-25%. If you harvest unripe olives you get a lower rate but the oil has an amazing quality. The olive oils from the green olives of "Picudo" variety is one of the best delicacies in the world but is also very expensive beacause of the harvesting method used in order to not damage the olive tree. For an optimum tasting remember to use unfiltered extra virgin olive oil from unripe olives (the first oil of the season) for raw use and filtered virgin olive oil for cooking, bakery, frying, etc.

@@josemiguelmunoz6985 Thanks for expert reply. What is the approximate oil percentage from green olives of first harvest? That can give me an idea of the price difference.

@@pjacobsen1000Oil from the early harvest the locals here often keep for their own. Actually the market price is higher in the early season, (~50cent/l) but I guess it has more to to with the saturation of market demand. Most olive mills don't give so much about it, as the oil will be exported and blended down afterwards.

@@joeeigo9820 Good point. So I guess I have to go to the Mediterranean region to get the good stuff.

@@joeeigo9820 The oil fron the early harvest is also bottled and sold to everyone who want it. Obviously this oil is more expensive because at the begining of the season the olive oil reserves are low. This year the price of the extra virgin olive oil in mid December was more than 8 € a litre. Right now in early February is about 5,25 € a litre.

Yes

0:15 6:45 - What else do they need to say to tell you the entire world uses their product?

Of course it is for direct consumption. Millions of liters of packaged oil with certified Designation of Origin are sold and exported in Spain so that the consumer knows that they are buying a premium quality product. There is a brand from the south of the province of Córdoba called MUELOLIVA which exports to a lot of countries. You sould try their olive oil.

spain does the same thing with moroccan oil when they have less fruitful years..

Spain does the same. Buying olive oil from Uruguay, Northern Africa and other parts of the world and mix it and sell it as Spanish Olive Oil. Only a look at the package tells you “bottled in Spain”

Thats what Spain does with Tunisian Olive Oil. Takes oil in bulk from Tunisia and mixes with theirs to calls it SPANISH, and so does ITALY.

@@ahpuch2236 many crops, many scales. Not every crop is subsidized nor farmed on a large scale.

I agree. I sell my olives to a cooperative olive mill and to a private brand which pays the legal price of olive oil.

Isn't Dcoop a Cooperative?

@@jascrandom9855 Not exactly. DCOOP is a private enterprise which manages more than 120 olive oil and some another type cooperatives and wants to monopolize the market of the Spanish olive oil. Monopolies are not good and, in this case, it can be a ruin for farmers.

¿Será posible que parte de su producción, la destinen a producir lotes de aceite de mayor calidad? Sé que en el caso del cava (vino espumante como el champagne) los grandes productores tenían un cartel, pero algunas familias y masías se rebelaron y empezaron a producir de esta forma, y hasta ahora les ha ido bien en el mercado domestico y el internacional. Incluso del prosecco, vino similar de Italia pero de menor calidad* han hecho así y aumentado sus ventas vertiginosamente, sobre todo en USA. Pero pasa que los productores mantienen un pensamiento campesino, mas autentico, pero rústico, y no tienen esa visión, que si tienen los grandes monopolios y su marketing, que busca ganancias cuantiosas pero pagando lo menos posible al productor. *No usa el método "tradicional y empieza a desmejorar después de dos años, mientras el cava y el champagne se mantiene por décadas

​@@rennyotolinna2863 Toda la aceituna de la provincia de Córdoba se dedica a la producción de aceite de calidad, esto son unas 250.000 toneladas. En la zona sur de la provincia se encuentran las Sierras Subbéticas con una producción aproximada de 85.000 toneladas de aceite. Dentro de esta zona destaca la "Denominación de Origen Priego de Córdoba", que es donde se produce, con mucha diferencia, el mejor aceite, resultando todos los años ganador de casi todos los mejores premios internacionales. Todo el aceite de esta zona se comercializa y se exporta con la certificación de calidad que da la Denominación de Origen Priego de Córdoba. Hay que diferenciar entre el aceite que se produce a principios y durante el resto de la temporada. El primer aceite de la temporada se obtiene de aceitunas verdes y tiene un sabor tan intenso que no a todos gusta (a mí me encanta). Es verde y turbio y tiene una gran cantidad de aromas y matices. Este aceite de suele envasar sin filtrar. El problema del aceite sin filtrar es que lo sedimentos que decantan en el fondo del envase pueden fermentarse echando a perder la totalidad del aceite, debiendo consumirse en un plazo no superior a 3 o 4 meses. De ahí su dificultad para la exportación. El resto del aceite de la campaña, al ser extraído de aceituna madura, no es tan fuerte y resulta más dulce al paladar, siendo también un aceite de la más alta calidad. Por supuesto estamos hablando de Aceite de Oliva Virgen Extra, extraído por primera presión en frío, de forma totalmente mecánica y sin agentes químicos, ni mezclas de ningún tipo.

Tienes mucha razón amigo. Esta sequía es espantosa

Sorry to hear. Are you talking about zero fruits or just 1-5kg per tree? What's the min amount of olives your local mill accept?

@@joeeigo9820 Most of them zero, but If I had any Im sure the mill would accept any quantity over 20 or 40 kg, we know the owners

@@joseangelbravogallego9363 that's worse then I expected

Started in 2019... hence lockdowns. Rains returned last year... hence vaccines. Next global drought starts in 2027... hence "WW3".

That's what is told from the manufacturer. Actually you need higher amount of water to compensate the damage this machine causes to the fine root system. The fine roots close to the surface are taking in the water. It's all a selfmade problem.

ah yes Luxembourg ... in my place we prefer to use improper fractions of France

Yes. You woluld love the smell of the olive mills.

this is not common in spain, ive drove the length of it multiple times and theres a lot of monoculture of olive trees, all on barren rocky dirt cus they killed everything off with weed killer

@@chenwang643 that’s just how most of Spain’s soil is. The olive trees are not the reason

@@Dunika i know its not the olive trees, its the farmers killing off all biology in the soil cus its easier to harvest and get around the fields, the olive trees go very deep into the water table.... idk how u thought im blaming olive trees for this when i said its people killing everything with weedkiller, hardly anyone does regenerative agriculture here as its more expensive to grow organic in terms of certifications and fertilizers which would not be needed if the biology of the soil was left alone or ammended in a regenerative manner, top crops and microbes make a huge difference

@chen Wang No, no. I didnt mean that. I mean that most of Spain is very hard, dry soil, because is a dry climate. It doesnt look like that because the farmers. Wild fields look almost exactly like olive fields (you will find more bush and dry grass than trees in the wild however) thats just how it is. Olive trees grow in dry areas and they take a long time to grow before they are viable, the fields are decades old already, and the farmers would not plant them in soil that is good for something else because that type of soil is not that easy to find in Spain.

Do you really prefer to use butter or animal fats? You should know that the land where the olive tree is cultivated is the same as hundreds of years ago.

​@@gromenhauer7403 and?

@@mahokira504 Olive cultivation has nothing to do with climate change. It seems you do not find out.

yes if your pc run on potatoes

@@frankargenti It seems to be you are the kind of person who thinks that the food grows in the supermarket shelves.

Please stop lying ... They are LEAVES NOT BRANCHES

Thank you for existing. 😍

You cant be serious….

@@honestguy7764 just because you don't care about germs doesn't mean most people don't

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Praying isnt gonna do anything as long as conservative politicians continue ruining the environment in Spain. Look at how theyre taking all the water from natural reserves to produce more, more and more.

Damn

You should try a Stihl SP451 vibrating machine...

Started in 2019... hence lockdowns. Rains returned last year... hence vaccines. Next global drought starts in 2027... hence "WW3".

Started in 2019... hence lockdowns. Rains returned last year... hence vaccines. Next global drought starts in 2027... hence "WW3".

Depending on where you buy it's probably not real. Most "olive oil" in the USA is fake.

The oil mills around here take a share of your olive oil for processing. They put it all in a big pot and sell it ie to US. Basically it's a mix of hundreds of Farmers and to be honest, when you see the quality of the fruits, you might think twice to buy the oil. Blending the oil covers the rotten fruits

Try unfiltered extra virgin!

Spain, you can see it in evoo ranking or wboo ranking.

"Why should I care about olive oil in Europe?" is someone forcing you to? i dont get it, just watch a different video

Poutine ? Maple syrup? Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸

For what

Jaundiced maybe

Especially if it's an early-harvest oil. Bright green in September. But maybe they meant the final harvest in January which is much less green.

you sir are aware of global warming. good luck

Things have never ever been better in the history of the world. The vast majority of all of our ancestors were farm labourers living hand to mouth.

@@ronoc89 I Agree. THere are people who seems to want going back to the neolithic.

@@ronoc89 what does that have to do with the weather?

Natural progression of things

Rest assured that you are a very IGNORANT LIAR

"Jornal" aka daily wage is 7h, 40-50 euros both for immigrants and natives. In the timespan of 3 months that lasts the season anyone can do spare days getting the same pay. Vegetable greenhouses are another history since it's a lot more unregulated and they pay by hourly rate, getting as low as 1'5€/h

You clearly never went to Andalucia and it shows. Sure there's some bad apples just like in the US. But our people has always been getting their income from the soil. We didnt had to pay anybody else to do our work like you chops did with the Mexicans. There was nothing else at the time during the civil war in Spain so people had nothing but farming. They were really starving my grandfather always told me that. And obviously this was passed into the other generations who also worked on the farms until the late 2000's when people started moving into urban areas. But like what do you have to say anyway, the US is the pinnacle of "Im gonna pay you because I dont wanna do it myself" kind of thing.

Quite some ignorance you show in your comment Black Sheep

actually the obesity pandemic is because of the overconsumption of carbohydrates mainly, not because of fat

@@naranjo5277 im on a high fat diet myself.. but saturated fats, not seed oils. and i agree, you do not get fat from fat, but the thing with high linoleic acid seed oil, is that the disrupt your metabolism, and then you get fat because your body is a evolutionary-detached mess.

In order to erradicate obesity animal fats should be also banned.

@@gromenhauer7403 why?

Sounds like same situation in California.

Something has got to give, past a certain point. We probably reached that point, so...

Hey John. You don't need to buy from the farms. Just find a spanish store and buy the olive oil online (make sure the olive oil is extra virgin, not refined). Find the most common brands in Spain and buy some bottles. How do you know it's good stuff? Easy, just stop buying things with an italian flag or name. Italy never meant quality... At least here. That's just the image they sell to your country, but they perfeclty can be bottling dog pee and putting an italian flag on it.

There is a brand from the south of the province of Córdoba named MUELOLIVA which produces high quality olive oil and exports to the US. I use to sell them a part of my harvest. Buy only extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) from the provinces of Córdoba or Jaén and try to avoid brands like Carbonell, La Masia or DCOOP. Never buy Italian olive oil. The quality of the commecial Italian olive oil is one of the worst in the world.

@@sergiofernandez7022 Ahí le has dao, paisano.

I looked so long for this comment so I didn't have to do it myself 😂

Maybe their fingers are cleaner than your mouth.

You still have to learn a lot about olives cultivation.

Go and buy it then.

@@shanecarroll5376 in this economy? Thats a good one

@@noahboat580 it's about 14 euros for the good stuff

Its a local product in spain. Don't ask for cheap prices for an international import.

@@verybarebones even local goods are all high prices.

Thats how you start brush fires...

You want a massive fire? You don't understand the climate or ecology or the region at all 😂

Important distinction to make

Are you blaming him for not working the 10 acres himself😂

And you seriously think people over in America dont pay others to take care of their ranchs? You're clearly delusional.

Still a farmer

It's actually quite common even for those family members who live in big cities like Madrid or Barcelona to go back to their villages to work for a week or two either picking grapes or "vareando" (hitting with sticks) the olive trees. This is not like the wealthy Californian that watches while the Mexicans work

yeah it doesn't harm the main branches, the branches with fruit fall

Olgay, are you Turkish by any chance?

@@michaeljarrett8246 yes I am. But this is not about being turkish. If you have a chance, just buy some olive oil turkish made. You are going to love the flavour.

Yes, it is. It's also hard to find in North America and 50$ a liter like any other quality EVOO. None of the websites I checked would ship to Canada.

We have tons of reservoirs. But there hasn't been enough rain to fill them up for years, and water use is higher and higher as companies chase more and more profits.

You are not Spanish, isn't it? Nobody in Spain is selling water rights to corporations nor using silver iodine. By the way, silver iodide is not used to prevent rain but to generate rain. That's only one more conspiracy theory.