Coffee

Brazil Coffee Crop Looking Smaller Than Expected
Brazil Coffee Crop Looking Smaller Than Expected
Brazil Coffee Crop Looking Smaller Than Expected
Brazil’s government said its farmers will harvest 55.74 million bags of coffee in 2022. That number is 16.8% higher than last year, but experts say that’s a smaller amount than most people in the world’s largest coffee producer were expecting. Reuters said the ...
2021 Thanksgiving Dinner Will Cost More
2021 Thanksgiving Dinner Will Cost More
2021 Thanksgiving Dinner Will Cost More
While the cost of last year’s Thanksgiving Day dinner was the lowest since 2010, this year could be quite a different story. According to the New York Times, this could be the most expensive dinner on record in the holiday’s history. Nearly ev ...
Brazil Coffee Growers Hit Hard by Frost
A surprise frost last week struck Brazil’s coffee belt and hit farmers hard. Financial Post says industry experts fear farmers may default on deliveries of recently-harvested coffee that were sold to traders months ago at prices that are half of the current value. Tem ...
WPC: No Justification For Slavery Bill In Washington Senate
WPC: No Justification For Slavery Bill In Washington Senate
WPC: No Justification For Slavery Bill In Washington Senate
Senate Bill 5693 was legislation that surprised many in the Washington Ag community this session.  The legislation introduced in Olympia has been referred to as the Slavery Bill, for its requirements that Washington farmers prove they are not using slave labor in their operations.  ...
Coffee Supplies May Drop on Low Farm Earnings
Coffee Supplies May Drop on Low Farm Earnings
Coffee Supplies May Drop on Low Farm Earnings
International coffee growers are warning less coffee supplies may be in the future as coffee farmers are earning very little globally.   The International Coffee Organization this week said farmers’ low earnings in many countries were depressing supply even as demand grows around 2% annually, according to Reuters.   Raboba...
U.S. Coffee Demand Growing
U.S. Coffee Demand Growing
U.S. Coffee Demand Growing
The International Coffee Organization says coffee consumption in the United States is expected to grow at 2% a year until 2020.  The United States is the world’s largest national coffee market and accounted for 16% of global coffee consumption during the 2015-16 coffee growing season.  A spokes...