Two years ago, Dan Belliveau hit upon the idea for a new product: Coffee Flour. A former director of technical services at Starbucks, Belliveau had learned about coffee production while designing and building roasting facilities. The process, he realized, resulted in lots of waste, which could be used. The dried, roasted coffee beans we use […]
By Gerson Freitas Jr. March 25 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s worst drought in decades is coming with a silver lining for coffee growers responsible for one in every three cups of fresh java drunk in the world. A price surge as the dry spell hurts crops is allowing farmers to sell stockpiled coffee at a profit […]
By Peter Murphy BOGOTA, March 5 (Reuters) – Some arabica coffee buyers in Colombia have ripped up supply contracts with exporters, setting off a price war for high-quality beans in the first sign a 75 percent surge in prices so far this year is starting to disrupt the market, exporters say. Trading houses have been […]
10 percent of Brazil’s most productive coffee-growing regions may be fallowed in just a few years. —By Eric Holthaus Ilya Frankazoid/Shutterstock This story originally appeared in Slate and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If there was ever a reason to rise up in support of a benevolent climate-obsessed world dictator, […]
Drought and coffee culture: what plant physiology has to explain – by Jose Alves Donizeti* In view of this catastrophe that Brazilian coffee is going through, I would like to add some points that have not been discussed or if they have been that was made in a hypothetical manner. Much has been said about […]
Forecast rain may pour cold water on Brazil’s Carnival festivities in the next few days, but the country’s farmers are looking forward to getting a drenching. After a January that ranked as one of the hottest and driest on record, heavy rains expected across the south of the country will be a welcome relief for […]
As Coffee Soars, That Cup of Joe May Get Pricier Dry Weather in Brazil Fuels Fears for Crop Updated Feb. 18, 2014 4:10 p.m. ET Caffeine junkies should brace for bad news: Their morning jolt could get more expensive soon. Coffee prices on Tuesday staged their biggest gain in nearly a decade in the futures […]
February 18, 2014 12:46 pm Coffee jumps 10% on fund buying By Emiko Terazono Coffee prices jumped 10 per cent on Tuesday to a year high on heavy buying by hedge funds and other financial investors. The higher quality arabica bean rallied sharply on active buying, with the ICE May benchmark hitting a high of […]
Brazil’s coffee areas are “just becoming drier and drier”, International Coffee Organization executive Mauricio Galindo said as the group unveiled a below-market forecast for world output, and futures soared a further 4%. “It is true that Brazil is just becoming drier and drier,” Mr Galindo, ICO head of operations, told Agrimoney.com. While Espirito Santo, the […]
To our esteemed clients, In the last few days there has been an escalation of coffee politics in Nyeri County, home to some of the best coffees in Kenya. Licensed coffee millers and marketing agents are being forced out of the area, as the newly elected Nyeri county government tries to seize the marketing rights […]