Mas de la Vall
Cretas, Matarranya
OliveProducing
- Hectares
- 26
- Olive trees
- 5,980
- Variety
- Empeltre
- Joined @seis
- 2024
- Water per hectare
- 1,500
- m³ per year
- Last harvest
- 149,400
- kg of olives
Who ran it
Cesáreo and Amparo bought Mas de la Vall in 1971, the year they married. They irrigated by gravity with water from the Matarranya and took the olives to the village co-op. Their children, Nuria and Joaquín, live in Zaragoza and neither was going to take on the farm. In the last four seasons the upper plots went unpicked because they could find nobody to climb up and beat the branches.
What we have changed
We bought the 26 hectares in 2024 and Cesáreo stayed on with us. He comes up most days and tells us where the frost lands first and where the ground dries out soonest. We have put in drip irrigation with moisture probes in every sector, cleared the trunks of all 5,980 trees so the shaker and umbrella can get in and set up a weather station on the high ground.
What it gives now
Last season brought in 149,400 kilos of olives. A third more than the last crop Cesáreo picked on his own. We take it to the mill in Calaceite the same day and that is where the bottles with the farm name come from.
Latest
September 2026
- 18Sept
Watering sector 3 before the fruit turns
−1,840 m³
- 2Sept
Attract traps against the olive fly
−€1,260.00
August 2026
- 21Aug
Watering all four sectors in the hottest week
−4,100 m³
July 2026
- 10Jul
380 clogged drippers replaced in sector 2
−€690.00
June 2026
- 4Jun
Summer pruning of suckers
−€2,300.00
April 2026
- 15Apr
Fertiliser through the drip in all four sectors
−€3,150.00
February 2026
- 12Feb
Oil from batch MV-2602 bottled in Calaceite
+29,880 kg
December 2025
- 19Dec
Harvest over, olives delivered to the mill
+149,400 kg
November 2025
- 12Nov
First day of harvest with shaker and umbrella
+18,200 kg
October 2025
- 20Oct
Last watering of the season
−1,100 m³
The map
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- Olive grove24.5 ha
- Banks and boundaries0.8 ha
- Water0.4 ha
- Buildings0.3 ha
- Total26 ha
What comes next
2024Done€68,000
Drip with probes in all four sectors
Watering follows the probe, not the calendar.
2025Done€4,200
Weather station on the high ground
It warns of frost and olive fly two days ahead.
2026Under way€36,000
Solar panels for the pump
The well pumps by day on sunlight and stops paying for peak power.
2027Planned€22,000
Spraying drone
It sprays the upper plots without taking the tractor up the slope.
2028Planned€60,000
Pruning robot
It prunes in winter with a camera and the crew only goes over it.
From this farm
Mas de la Vall500 ml bottle
€19.50
2.5 litre jug2.5 l jug
€54.00
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