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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:27 am

As climate change threatens CentAm coffee, a cocoa boom is born

Jan 18, 2016

Soaring temperatures in Central America, linked to climate change, are forcing many farmers to replace coffee trees with cocoa - a crop once so essential to the region's economy it was used as currency.


Farmers across the region, known for high-quality arabica beans, are still recovering from a coffee leaf rust disease known as roya, which devastated crops over the past four years.


This crop year, coffee bean exports from six countries in the region excluding Honduras will fall for the third straight year, to 8.14 million 60-kg (132-pound) bags - the lowest level since the 1973/1974 cycle, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.



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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:47 pm

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When it comes to specific commodities, one that is trading at an interesting junction based on its long-term weekly chart is coffee.

Taking a look at the eight-year chart of the iPath Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN (JO) below, you can see that the price has been trading sideways for much of 2015-16.

Based on the extreme showing on the Volume by Price indicator, it appears as though the bulls and bears are at a stalemate near current levels.

The slight shift higher puts the bias in favor of the bulls and based on the chart it looks as though the next stop could be in the mid-$30s for JO sometime in 2017.

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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:06 pm

Brazil’s coffee growers face bleak future as world warms

Small-scale farmers who produce most of the world’s coffee beans face reductions in crop yield and quality as a result of rising temperatures and extreme weather

By Jan Rocha

The $US19 billion trade continues to deliver a 5% increase in consumption annually.


“Between 80% and 90% of the world’s 25 million coffee farmers are smallholders, who are among those most exposed to climate change.

“They generally live and work in the ‘bean belt’, which comprises around 70 mostly developing countries, including Guatemala, Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Ethiopia and Indonesia. Climate change threatens their world.”


Plants that are more resistant to pests and drought are also being developed. So, for the time being at least, it looks like there will continue to be a lot of coffee in Brazil.


Source: Climate Home

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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:11 pm

Caffeine: 10 Most Commonly Believed Misconceptions

By Rudy Caretti

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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Wed Jan 04, 2017 8:19 pm

Demand for Coffee Hits Record High as Global Supply Tightens

Millennials have led the surge in java consumption

The bulk of the world’s java-lovers are young people between the ages of 19 to 34, who are drinking more coffee than ever before.

While older generations may be drifting away from the brew, so many more young people are more than making up for any resulting drop in coffee drinkers.


One of the world’s most-used types of coffee—the robusta bean—is becoming harder and harder to grow thanks to the increasingly warmer and drier climate.

That means more producers are switching to the smoother-tasting arabica bean, Eve Peyser reports for Gizmodo. Because of this, the price for arabica-coffee futures has jumped, causing places like Starbucks to raise the price of its java.


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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:10 pm

Jul 19, 2016

What’s Brewing in the Java Market?

Record high global consumption at 150.8 million bags (each weighing 60 kg) in the 12 months starting October 1, a +1.2% increase from the preceding period, as indicated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates.

However, production levels may be finding it hard to keep up. The global deficit could widen to 2.2 million of 60-kg bags for the 2016-17 season, from 800,000, as suggested by Rabobank International.


Inventories predicted to hit a 4-year low in 2016-17 amid:-
1. heavy rains in Colombia,
2. dry spells in Vietnam and Indonesia and
3. coffee rust in Central American/Mexico plantations


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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:20 pm

Smucker hikes prices of Folgers, Dunkin' Donuts packaged coffee

J. M. Smucker Co (SJM.N) said on Wednesday that it had raised prices of its packaged coffee products such as Folgers and Dunkin' Donuts by an average of 6 percent in the United States.

The biggest U.S coffee roaster said it had hiked prices in response to a sustained increases in green coffee costs.

Arabica coffee futures KCc1 rose to the highest level in almost six weeks on Tuesday, boosted by index fund buying, after major a Brazilian coffee exporter forecast smaller arabica and robusta crops for 2017-18.

Last June, when there were ample supplies from Brazil, Smucker had cut retail prices on Folgers and Dunkin' Brands Group Inc's (DNKN.O) Dunkin' Donuts coffees by 6 percent.

Smucker said on Wednesday that its K-Cup pods were excluded from the price increase. The company is licensed to make packaged coffee and K-cup pods for Dunkin' Donuts.

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Re: Coffee

Postby behappyalways » Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:48 pm

Supply shortage in world coffee market led by robusta beans

The International Coffee Organization forecasts a supply shortage of 3.5m 60kg bags of coffee for the year beginning in October, with output at 151.6m bags and consumption at 155.1m.

This is despite record production of arabica coffee, the higher quality bean, thanks to bumper crops in Brazil, Colombia and Honduras.


Robusta beans are primarily turned into instant coffee or blended with arabica, to add a kick to the flavour as well as lowering the overall cost.


Robusta production was hurt last year due to a severe drought in Brazil, and dryness in Vietnam and Indonesia on the back of the El Niño.


The lower quality beans are 43 per cent higher than at the start of 2016, trading at $2.190 a tonne.

The robusta rally also supported arabica prices in the middle of 2016, although plentiful supplies later in the year triggered profit-taking.



Source: CNBC

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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Tue Jan 17, 2017 8:03 am

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How Your Morning Coffee Might Slow Down Aging

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Re: Coffee

Postby winston » Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:26 pm

The Looming Coffee Shortage

Coffee prices surge as severe drought and floods hit world's largest coffee producers

By Emel Akan

This year will be the third consecutive year of supply shortage in the global coffee market

Bad weather caused by El Niño hurt robusta bean production by the world’s top two producers, Brazil and Vietnam.


And recently, excessive rainfall in Vietnam disrupted the harvest of this year’s crop, he said.


The price for robusta coffee in the London futures market surged nearly 60 percent in the last year and reached a five-year high in January. That move helped drive the price of arabica coffee in the New York futures market up 30 percent.


According to ICO, the total output for arabica and robusta beans will be 151.6 million bags for the current production year, which began in October 2016. The total global consumption, however, will be at 155.1 million bags, hence creating a supply shortage of 3.5 million bags of coffee.


The J.M. Smucker Co. (Ticker symbol: SJM) announced in January that it would raise the prices of its coffee products by about 6 percent in the U.S. retail stores.

Starbucks (SBUX) raised its prices twice last year.


Coffee is the most traded commodity in the world, following crude oil.

Brazil is the biggest coffee producer, producing one-third of the world’s coffee. And Europe is the largest importer of coffee, accounting for one-third of world’s coffee consumption.



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