SPECIAL REPORT: As Economy Improves, Ethiopia’s Coffee Consumption Surges
In honor of my visit later this month to Ethiopia, the birthplace of Coffea Arabica, I am republishing a number of my special reports on this awesome country and its…
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SPECIAL REPORT: Ethiopia’s Gift To The World, Coffee Production Is Growing Again
In honor of SpillingTheBeans’ visit this week to Ethiopia I am republishing a number of my special reports on this awesome coffee country. Amesege’nallo Ethiopia for bringing coffee to the…
HARVEST ANALYSIS: Vietnam’s 2015-16 Coffee Harvest Size Cut Short By Old Coffee Trees
The new coffee harvest in Vietnam, the world’s second largest grower and exporter, is unlikely to meet market expectations for a bumper crop. In November 2015 SpillingTheBeans visited Vietnam to…
SpillingTheBeans Speaks About Supply Constraints At New York Coffee Festival
Dear Friends and fellow Coffee Lovers, we are HONORED to let you know that SpillingTheBeans’ owner and author, Global Coffee Reporter and Independent Analyst Maja Wallengren, will be speaking at…
Mexico Hit by 2nd MEGA-Quake, At Least 47 Dead As Hurricane Maria Batters Caribbean Coffee Islands
Mexico City was hit by a SECOND massive 7.1-magnitude quake on Tuesday and at least 47 people have been reported dead in the neighboring states of Puebla and Morelos. Terrifying…
SPECIAL REPORT: The Arabica-Robusta Balance – Does It Really Matter?
It used to be that arabica coffee made up between 65 and 70 percent of the world’s entire global production, but as consumption patterns have shifted so have the balance…
VIDEO: Quality Coffee in Colombia – History, Crisis and Recovery
Join SpillingTheBeans in this special trip to the coffee lands of Armenia in Colombia’s coffee province of Quindío in September 2014. Learn about Colombian coffee history, the crisis caused by…
MARKET INSIGHT: Sep Arabica Coffee Rise On Brazil Frost Concerns, Up 1.55 Cent At $1.3655/Lb Jul 21
JUL 21, 2017 (SpillingTheBeans)–Active September Arabica coffee futures settled higher on Friday at the ICE exchange in New York, closing up 1.55 cents at 136.55 cents per pound, as market…
BREAKING: Cold Front Hits Brazil’s Parana Coffee Regions With Frost In 3-Day Attack
JULY 20, 2017, 01:28EDT–Brazil’s southern coffee belt continued to register very cold weather early on Thursday with the Parana coffee regions of Jesuitas and Campo Mourao hit for third consecutive…
SPECIAL REPORT: Are Speculators ‘Crushing’ Our Coffee Growers?
Coffee growers across the world’s producing countries are increasingly in pain over the continuing low prices, prices which for the vast majority of growers are below the cost of production….