We all thought that the 2023 would also be a harvest of plenty. April started out fantastic; farmers all across Italy were delighted to see their groves full of olive flowers. But then the weather turned very strange. Rainstorms came every single morning, and the afternoon weather switched to unusually hot temperatures. Now this would be fine weather for a few days, but not for a full month. The hot sun in the afternoon combined with the damp rain of the morning began burning off our olive flowers. By the end of spring, more than half of our flowers were...