DEC 6 (SpillingTheBeans)–Active March Arabica coffee futures closed up 0.40 cents at $1.0640 per pound on Friday at the ICE futures exchange in New York after an event-less day marked…
DEC. 5, 2013 (GCR Magazine)–The #1 lot at Brazil’s Cup of Excellence (COE) Early Harvest live auction held online on 27 November sold at US$23.10 per pound, or approximately double…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is scheduled to release its 2nd “World Markets and Trade” report for the 2013-14 coffee cycle on Dec. 13th. The latest outlook is expected to…
DEC 3, 2013 (Sagarpa)–Participa el subsecretario de Agricultura de la SAGARPA, Jesús Aguilar Padilla, en foro donde se anunció la Coalición de Organizaciones de Productores de Café, con la finalidad…
Colombia has for years been recognized as one of the world’s most important coffee growing countries. For decades Colombia ranked firmly as the second largest producing nation in the world…
Coffee remains one of the most important economic activities in Colombia. An estimated 563,000 producer families depend on growing coffee for their main or partial daily survival and coffee is…
When the climate crisis started in Colombia it was here in Antioquia that signs of the severe impact of erratic weather first started to show in the 2008-09 mitaca crop,…
The crisis in the Colombian coffee lands would continue to get worse, with production in the next 2009-10 year falling to 8.098 million bags – one of the smallest crops…
The outbreak of rust in Nariño and Huila would continue to impact the coffee production in Colombia negatively in the next few years and production failed to recover to levels…
Some historical accounts suggest that coffee cultivation first started in Colombia around the year 1730 after being brought into the country via Venezuela from Martinique, but most coffee historians agree…
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