Brazil FOB weekly Price Report by Wolthers Associates Santos
Wolthers Associates Santos updated their weekly Price Report, and you can see it here.
Industry News
Mid-Summer In America, past mid harvest in Brazil.
News coming from the Brazilian Coffee Belt is that 70% of the crop is at home and that yield and bean size are in fact reduced. The weather has been absolutely normal for the season, very dry and with lower temperatures but no frost in the coffee regions. The quality for the Natural Arabicas is […]
Brazil in full harvest swing!
Well over 40% of the Brazilian crop is under covered roofs already. It is still too early to evaluate productivity but the good news is that quality is mostly very good. At the current harvest pace, we could see the last pickings by mid to late August, almost a month earlier than usual. On the […]
Countdown to SCAA 2014
Only 18 days to the SCAA Event in Seattle! We will be there at the NUCOFFEE Booth # 14.105, come and talk to us regarding the latest news from Brazil and Colombia. Come and meet the NUCOFFEE and Wolthers Douque Teams. See you in Seattle! Christian Wolthers
Carnival in Brazil while rains return over the Coffee Belt
While most Brazilian producers and exporters enjoy the Carnival holidays, rains have fallen with relative abundance over the majority of the Arabica coffee areas. This is the second rain wave in less than 10 days and will certainly help to interrupt the progressive negative impact caused by the severe drought and low humidity indexes that […]
First Episode: Chasing The Roya, Closing the Cycle 2013
My trip revisiting the Guatemalan Coffee Cordillera started on October 18th from the small forgotten town of Champerico in the Northern Western Coast of Guatemala. This is not far from the Mexican Border and it took me 3 hours to reach the heights of the San Marcos District and into the small Pueblo of San […]
Clear skies and warmer temperatures for Brazil’s Arabica coffee Belt
As expected, the last cold front to threat the Brazilian Coffee Belt went through leaving no damages to the coffee plantations. Now, as the harvest in Brazil is 65% done, its soon time for evaluating the quality of the crop. The Cerrado zone will probably present its best quality in years as the weather has […]
Brazil faces massive student and popular protest and rioting as the coffee harvest is at full speed
Yes, Brazil’s modern economic miracle is not free from its local citizen and youth in-satisfaction and questioning! The current Confederations World Soccer Cup, Pope Francisco’s visit still this late June, the 2014 FIFA Soccer World Cup and Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Games in 2016 have suddenly turned against the Samba, Soccer and Flamboyant Brazilian party […]
It’s that time again, The Brazilian New Crop harvest starts in May!
The big question this year is where to store the incoming 13/14 new crop which starts to be harvested this May and finishes by September/13? The numbers suggest a storage and logistic nightmare as Brazilian storage capacity, truck availability and road infra-structure are maxed out. Coffee producers avoid storing coffee in the farms due to […]
SCAA Conference starts tomorrow
Boston will be the Specialty Coffee Mecca for a week! Enjoy our short video about sophisticated demand on high quality coffee and how to fight stress. Also see our Offer list with amazing Brazilian Micro Lots.
