Ethiopia’s coffee trading is soon to include speciality coffee trading alongside the trading of commercial coffee trading. The speciality coffee trading measure aims at connecting farmers directly with international buyers, opening a direct window for them, according to Eleni Gebre Medhin, CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX). To date the ECX has been handling […]
Bogota, Nov 20 – Colombian exports of specialty coffee are expected to be flat in 2009 as international buyers were reluctant to purchase the beans due to high international prices, the country’s coffee federation said on Friday. Heavy rains earlier this year and a crop renovation program that temporarily took some fields out of use […]
March ICE Arabica (KCAH0) Coffee: The picture is mixed, with a slightly bullish bias for the short-term. Remaining above 137 will keep KCAH0 positioned to continue higher, and challenge 145, then 146.85. Invalidation: On the other hand, a close below 137 would signal a decline towards 133.05. At that point, a close below 133 would […]
Carlos Gonzalez said at the Sintercafe >coffee conference in Costa Rica that Colombia’s coffee output for 2010 was seen at 11 million bags. Nestor Osorio, executive director of the International Coffee Organization, said on Friday at the same event that Colombia’s 2009/10 coffee harvest, which runs from October through September, will come in at 9 […]
By Susan Salisbury THE PALM BEACH POST Drink up, coffee lovers. Not only is coffee aromatic and delicious, it’s good for you. Who says? None other than Harvard Medical School. Once considered questionable for your health, it turns out that the beloved beverage is actually healthful in moderation. That means a few cups a day. […]
Coffee futures inched down as dealers focused on tropical storm Ida which hit eastern Nicaragua on Thursday, although the initial impression was that the depression was not likely to trigger a reaction to futures prices. Tropical Storm Ida slammed into Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast on Thursday but coffee and sugar producers in the Central American nation […]
Bogota, Oct 26 – Expectations of strong droughts hitting Colombia in the first three months of next year have led some of the country’s coffee growers cut their production estimates for 2010. The El Nino weather phenomena is producing high temperatures across the country and the tendency is expected to worsen into the first quarter. […]
BY MARLENE NAANES AND WILLIAM LAMB NorthJersey.com MOONACHIE – A Sara Lee coffee and tea plant that took all night for firefighters from 18 departments to extinguish could reopen tonight or tomorrow, a company spokesman said. The plant is waiting on borough officials’ approval to reopen, spokesman Mike Cummins said. Only one-eighth of the 110,000-square-foot […]
Wed Oct 21, 7:12 pm ET WASHINGTON (AFP) – Researchers in the United States have found another good reason to go to the local espresso bar: several cups of coffee a day could halt the progression of liver disease, a study showed Wednesday. Sufferers of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of […]
Coffee growers could have to move to higher altitudes — meaning higher prices but maybe tastier brews. By Ezra Fieser — Special to GlobalPost Published: September 14, 2009 06:30 ET “As a scientist it pains me to say it, but the conditions for coffee growing in many of the highland areas, where the best coffee […]