New and Old #138

Friday roundup and commentary

Olive Oil Producers Turn to Tourists to Combat Soaring Costs, Extreme Weather, Bloomberg, Andrew Davis, November 22, 2023

Extreme rains across Italy in the spring knocked many of the olive flowers off Macchia’s 900 trees before the fruit could form, and she’s expecting this year’s oil output to plummet by about three-quarters. To help make up some of the…