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Brazilian coffee sellers are downbeat on the prospects for the supply of beans, in contradiction to market expectations that the country will have a bigger crop next year. Cooxupé, Brazil’s largest Arabica coffee cooperative, expects next year’s harvest to be as weak as this year’s, President Carlos Augusto Rodrigues de Melo said in an interview, […]

The black frost experienced by Brazil in July 2021 has thrown the coffee industry into a period of uncertainty. Prices have risen significantly since then, leading some farmers to default on their future contracts and seek buyers willing to pay higher prices. In 2021, several major trading houses had trouble getting the coffee they had

Brazil’s latest plight, the reduction of the coffee harvest, is the result of earlier difficult weather conditions such as drought and frost. The coffee trees are finally showing the impact of the bad weather. These effects could continue for a while, threatening Brazilian coffee producers in addition to uncertain weather patterns. Major extremes between temperature

The Brazilian government has admitted that its statistics on coffee yields have been problematic in recent years and need to be improved to reflect reality better. The estimates were smaller than the number of exports plus the sum of local consumption. Conab, Brazil’s food supply and statistics agency, has had problems monitoring Brazil’s coffee harvest,

Illycaffè opens the second branch of the Università del Caffè in São Paulo, Brazil, an information hub aimed at promoting and spreading the culture of high-quality coffee worldwide. The hub will offer hospitality courses to educate coffee producers and consumers. Customers, baristas and other hospitality industry professionals can choose the courses that best suit their preferences.

The Switzerland-based multinational food and beverage company Nestlé has recently opened a coffee processing plant in Veracruz, Mexico, which purportedly cost the company $340m. The Nescafé coffee factory will create 1,200 jobs and enable the company to process about 670,000 bags each year. This establishes Mexico as the company’s prominent global coffee processor, with the

As coffee prices skyrocket due to unpredictable weather conditions, shipping bottlenecks and also the war in Ukraine, some consumers have turned to robusta coffee as a cheaper substitute. This presents a great opportunity for Brazil, as much of its land can be used to grow robusta. Vietnam has traditionally been the No. 1 supplier of