AdvertisementOlive Oil Producers In 'Crisis' From Weather, Pests And DiseaseDecember 08, 2014NPR StafffacebookEmailDamaged olives hang in the grove belonging to Augusto Spagnoli, an oil producer from Nerola, near Rome. Producers and experts declared Italy's 2014 olive harvest the worst in history, due to adverse climatic conditions that helped the olive fly proliferate, thus destroying the olives before they could be harvested. (AP)