Pruning is one of the most powerful tools olive growers have to protect tree health, stabilise annual yield, and maintain efficient harvesting systems. This guide breaks down the core principles of training young trees, managing mature production canopies, and performing essential post-harvest clean-up to keep olive groves productive and balanced.

Paul Vossen, a renowned olive oil production expert and former farm advisor with UC Cooperative Extension, presents a hands-on tutorial focused on pruning medium-density olive trees for optimal health, structure, and productivity.

The F3020 Electrocoup weighs less and is more compact which offers improved efficiency and faster-cutting speed, making the new generation F3020 a total advancement in features.

Girdling (or cincturing) involves removing a narrow strip of bark around the trunk or scaffold of an olive tree to interrupt the flow of carbohydrates to the roots — thereby redirecting energy toward fruit development. When applied correctly, early trials in Israel and Spain reported up to a 40% yield increase and larger fruit size (from 3.9 g to 4.7 g) the following harvest cycle. But the technique carries risks: timing, girdle width, wound heal

The teeth on Silky Saws are like super sharp little chisels that are dragged across the surface of a branch with each chisel taking a bite out of the wood it is cutting. Using Japanese ingenuity, saws cut on the pull stroke and to stop the saws binding they developed a process that is called among other things, taper or hollow grinding. What they did was get a big round grinding stone and ground their saw blades so the thickest part of the blade

There are varying qualities of secateurs from budget to professional quality but why are there different types of blades fitted to secateurs? Usually, the range extends from bypass (or parrot-beak type), anvil, and double blade.