What’s Happening This Month? The new harvest is underway across the Mediterranean. In Portugal, Tunisia, Spain, and Italy, most mills are now fully operational. The hot, dry autumn in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil producer, has lowered initially optimistic production expectations, helping keep the market firm despite the arrival of new-season volumes. Currently, prices... Mostra articolo
What’s Happening This Month? September marks the end of the 2024/25 crop year, making way for the 2025/26 output data. Spain maintains robust monthly export figures once again, showing that demand for Spanish olive oil remains consistently strong. The total sales have surpassed national production, confirming Spain’s prominent role in international trade. With much to... Mostra articolo
What’s Happening This Month? The olive oil sector is entering a decisive stage as the early harvest begins. In Spain, operators face significant pressure in sourcing high-quality oils. Remaining stocks from the 2024/25 season are scarce and of low quality, while sales volumes in August and early September reached record levels. At the same time,... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? The olive oil market in July continues to follow the trajectory observed in previous months. Italy continues to uphold elevated price levels, supported by limited inventories and steady demand for premium-grade oils. In contrast, the broader Mediterranean region has seen price stabilisation following significant earlier-year declines, with marginal upward adjustments now... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? After a brief period of price stabilization, olive oil prices have again edged downward in recent days, though the declines remain marginal. A review of key market platforms monitoring average evaluations, while often not reflective of actual transaction prices for high-quality olive oils, provides a snapshot of current national trends: *Starting... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? Olive oil market prices continued their downward trend in May, primarily driven by favorable weather and rainfall across major growing regions. These conditions improved expectations for the 2025/26 harvest, contributing to an additional softening of prices across producing countries, except for Italy, due to its limited stock levels. As of May... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? This month’s key development was the announcement by the White House of two sets of additional import duties imposed by the U.S. government on a wide range of imported products, including olive oil. Following the initial announcement on April 9, 2025, some of these charges were suspended for 90 days. This... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? Over the past few weeks, average extra virgin olive oil prices (EVOO) prices in Spain have continued a downward trajectory, once again dipping below the 4.00 Eu/Kg threshold, at approximately 3.8 to 5 Eu/Kg for conventional and 5 to 5.5 Eu/Kg for organic. This correction is primarily attributed to a substantial increase... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? Even though average prices in Spain have slightly further declined since our last report on January 22nd (4.50 Eu/Kg compared to 4.16 Eu/Kg as of February 18th on Poolred), the core market activity appears to have decelerated, following the robust January sales figures announced by the Spanish government on February 12th.... Mostra articolo
What’s happening this month? Since December 2024, the olive oil market has continued to experience price declines across most Mediterranean countries, with Italy as a notable exception. According to ISMEA, the leading Italian commodity trade monitor platform, the evaluation of the Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oil in 2025 remains substantially in line with 2024, fundamentally... Mostra articolo
