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Hi, This is our first year we have picked the olives from our trees, don't laugh, we only have three trees, but they have yielded almost 30 kilos. Now we don't know if the local oil mills will accept such a small amount. Has anybody any experience of how the mills work, i.e. cost of processing the olives, or will they buy these from us or even trade for oil. Any help gratefully received. buona giornata a tutti.   Frank White. 

Try the Community Search facility [on right hand side of page] for past postings on this I did a quick search on 'olive trees' and found these  -  Try other word options as well Good luck Alan

I seem to remember quite a lot of information on the old site : Hope thius helps. I guess you will have to register, and I don't know how this works now.

You did well with your trees!...we will be lucky to get a few boxes full from ours this year and we have 75!. Yield seems very localised, so this year we will be joining with friends to get a few litres each. In another previous bad year the presses were willing to take small amounts so you could always ask. The less automated, traditional cold presses are the ones to try. A rough guide, and this is dependant on the type of olive and when you pick, we usually pick 2nd week in Nov, is 7kilos of olives = 1litre of oil. Best yield for us was 120 litres which cost about 80e.

Enter the keywords "olive yield" in the search engine and you will get lots of information.

There is a very useful Forum, which tells you every you should wish to know about Olives and Oil. You can join and ask for advice from Professionals as well.