MerleApAmber Senior Member Joined: 13 Nov 2012 Posts: 162 Location: Atlanta Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Thu Jan 24, 2013, 12:12pm Subject: Re: NEWS: Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
I'm hoping the response is along the lines of that which the wine industry undertook when first France, and later California needed to answer fungal root infestations. Improvement in stock, field management, and genetics. While the discussion always returns to the economies of scale...we first world types absolutely depend upon our coffee resources. I wish all the best to our friends in the region and hope we can muster an effective intervention sooner rather than later. Better for the consumer, better for the intermediate agencies, and far better for the folk with the most on the line-simply due to their narrower margins-the growers and their local co-ops.
IMAWriter Senior Member Joined: 4 Jul 2002 Posts: 5,464 Location: Brentwood, TN Expertise: I live coffee
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Posted Thu Jan 24, 2013, 3:33pm Subject: Re: NEWS: Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
MerleApAmber Said:
I'm hoping the response is along the lines of that which the wine industry undertook when first France, and later California needed to answer fungal root infestations. Improvement in stock, field management, and genetics. While the discussion always returns to the economies of scale...we first world types absolutely depend upon our coffee resources. I wish all the best to our friends in the region and hope we can muster an effective intervention sooner rather than later. Better for the consumer, better for the intermediate agencies, and far better for the folk with the most on the line-simply due to their narrower margins-the growers and their local co-ops.
+1. Wow, aside from the selfish 9for me) aspect of higher prices, this is a disaster for those port folks who must subsist on the already low wages paid to those who harvest. THIS is where I'd like to see our govt. step in. Instead of the billions lost funding failed green energy companies, help these folks out. SORRY for the political injection.
MerleApAmber Senior Member Joined: 13 Nov 2012 Posts: 162 Location: Atlanta Expertise: I love coffee
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Posted Tue Jan 29, 2013, 11:57am Subject: Re: NEWS: Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
"Coffee rust regains foothold "Researchers marshal technology in bid to thwart fungal outbreak in Central America" Nature dot com Click Here (www.nature.com)
Steve, While I might consider the idea worthwhile, there is the sense that green coffee is at it's best within the first year. Given the trade offs, one could always propose today's rate of exchange makes the commodity cheaper now than later. But I'd then wonder, are the market players already starting to inflate the prices 'just-in-case?' But it does cause pause for thought: the idea presented in sci-fi, in the Fringe tele-novel, one world held coffee tight and were able to continue enjoying it - the other lost it due to some ecologic disaster... what an incredible loss for them.
stefano65 Senior Member Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 1,337 Location: Eugene OR Expertise: Professional
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Posted Tue Feb 19, 2013, 4:14pm Subject: Re: NEWS: Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
Interesting, but scary I just come home from Costa Rica, visit a plantation /processing plan and they didn't even mention anything about it hopefully for them (is a cooperative) the fungus is not there yet
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