Olives & olive oil
Galega · Cobrançosa · Arbequina
Grown in Portugal
What we grow
Cereals
Durum · Barley · Oats · Triticale
Seasonal produce
Tomatoes · Melons · Peppers · Squash
Picked in the cool hoursMilled the same day
Our Galega and Cobrançosa fruit leaves the grove before the heat gets into it and is milled within six hours of picking. That single rule — more than any certificate — is why our early-harvest oil comes in under 0.3% acidity year after year.
From field to partner
How a season becomes a delivery
We sell to processors, packers and distributors who need to know what is coming and when. That works best when the conversation starts in January, not the week before harvest.
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Step one
We plan the season with you
Volumes, varieties and delivery windows are agreed before sowing. For produce that means a planting plan built around your calendar; for cereal and oil it means a contracted tonnage with an agreed quality band.
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Step two
The crop is grown and recorded
Every input, irrigation event and field operation is logged against the parcel. Our agronomists walk the blocks weekly through the growing season and you get an update when something moves — early frost, a fly threshold, a shifted harvest date.
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Step three
Harvest, grade and hold
Picking is sequenced by ripeness rather than convenience. Olives go to the mill the same day, cereal into our stores at Beja under temperature and moisture monitoring, produce into cold chain within two hours of leaving the field.
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Step four
Documented delivery
Pallets leave with certificates of analysis, GLOBALG.A.P. numbers and lot codes that resolve to a parcel and a picking date. We ship by road across Iberia and into France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordics.
More about Lavourra
Our journey
Three generations between Évora and Beja, and the year the estates became one company.
Our heritage
Sustainability
Water measured per block, soil cover through winter, and the things we still get wrong.
See how
The growers
Seventeen family estates who kept their land and share one agronomy standard.
Meet themPrecision practice
Old knowledge, checked against instruments
Precision agriculture in the Alentejo is not about screens. It is about spending less water, less diesel and less fertiliser to get the same crop off the same ground — and being able to prove where that crop came from when a buyer asks.
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Soil, measured not assumed
Every parcel is sampled on a three-year cycle for organic matter, pH and available phosphorus and potassium. Nutrition plans are written per parcel, not per estate, and compost from our own olive pomace goes back where the analysis says it should.
- Grid sampling to 30 cm
- Cover crops between grove rows
- Minimum tillage on cereal blocks
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Water accounted for, drop by drop
Drip lines under Alqueva supply, scheduled against capacitance probes and daily evapotranspiration rather than a fixed calendar. Blocks that do not justify irrigation stay dry — roughly two-thirds of our cereal area.
- Probe-led scheduling
- Volumes logged per block
- 31% less water per tonne since 2019
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Traceable to the parcel
Each load leaves the field with a lot code that carries the parcel reference, picking date and crew. It follows the produce through the mill or the store to the pallet label, so a question from a buyer has an answer the same day.
- GLOBALG.A.P. certified
- Lot code on every pallet
- Residue testing to buyer specification
Careers
Work where the seasons still set the calendar
Around ninety people work at Lavourra through the year, and close to two hundred at the height of harvest. Some have been here for three decades. We hire for judgement in the field as much as for qualifications on paper.
- Olive Harvest PickerBeja, Portugal · Seasonal
- Olive Harvest Machinery OperatorÉvora, Portugal · Seasonal
- Cereal Harvest Combine OperatorBeja, Portugal · Seasonal
8 seasonal roles currently open — 27 places in all — across field operations, water infrastructure, packhouse and quality, most of them open to non-EU applicants on a sponsored seasonal work permit.
Trade enquiries
Tell us what you need and when you need it
Send us the crop, the volume and the delivery window. If we can grow it well here we will say so, and if we cannot we will tell you that too — usually within two working days.