The Pacific #coffee islands group of Tonga has been hit with a massive humanitarian emergency after a terrifying eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai over the weekend. The…
–New 2022 harvest in world’s largest coffee producer Brazil seen down to 36.3M-39M 60-kg bags –Total output of Arabica and Robusta beans would be down 16.8-22.6% compared to Conab 2021…
In honor of my visit nex week to Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica, I am republishing a number of my special reports on this awesome country and its wonderful…
Arabica coffee was first discovered growing in the wild in southwestern Ethiopia somewhere between the 8th and the 12th Century and by the 14th Century coffee was known to be…
About 20 years ago when I was first starting to write about coffee I came across a magazine article that spoke of the “Super Coffee” from Zimbabwe. It was between…
The world of coffee is in crisis with over 70 percent of the land cultivated with coffee worldwide currently being in a state of partial or complete abandonment because of…
Brazil and world faces minimum 10-12 million bag loss in 2022 harvest Travelling over 2,500 kilometers overland through Brazil’s frost damaged coffee fields the utter devastation is so compounding to…
As SpillingTheBeans aka the “Indiana Jones of Coffee” is flying into Brazil for an 8-day intense field trip to survey frost damage to farms and producing regions across 65 percent…
–Veteran coffee weather forecaster Mike Palmerino CONFIRMS 4 days more frost will hit Brazil this week –Four days more frost damage could provide DEATH BLOW to Brazil coffee production for…
JULY 26 (SpillingTheBeans)–Arabica coffee futures surged as much as 18.75 cents per pound to a fresh 7-year-high of $2.2030/lb in early session Monday at the ICE exchange in New York…
