California Olive Committee

Today, the California Olive Industry consists of two canneries which process the 86,000 to 160,000 tons of olives produced by approximately 35,000 acres growing in the warm inland valleys of the state. There are about 1,200 growers with orchards varying from as few as five acres to multicrop farms with over 1,000 acres. Tulare County in the central San Joaquin Valley has over 54 percent of olive acreage, while Kings, Kern, Fresno and Madera counties account for about 12 percent. In the Sacramento Valley to the north, Glenn, Tehama and Butte counties represent about 32 percent of the acreage.