Weekly Coffee News: Questioning Coffee's Future + New Look for CQI
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Weekly Coffee News: Questioning Coffee's Future + New Look for CQI
"NPR: What Lies in Coffee's Future? An NPR story this week explored the mounting challenges facing coffee growers, including rising temperatures, shrinking arable land, droughts driven by climate change, financial pressures, generational labor shortages, international market volatility and over-reliance on arabica production. "Most immediately, the Trump administration's tariffs, which threaten their sales, add to the ongoing challenges of pests and diseases for coffee production," the piece states. "In the longer term, experts say the coffee industry can't continue with business as usual.""
"The Coffee Quality Institute unveiled its new logo and website on International Coffee Day with a palette designed to "evoke coffee's origins" while marking a new phase for the organization as it cedes the Q Grader program to the SCA. The new look also reflects the group's expansion of its post-harvest processing program (PHP), including a new cohort of 14 instructors."
Coffee growers face rising temperatures, shrinking arable land, droughts linked to climate change, financial strain, generational labor shortages, market volatility, pests, diseases, and heavy reliance on arabica, while tariffs threaten sales. The Coffee Quality Institute introduced a new logo and website and expanded its post-harvest processing program (PHP) with a new cohort of 14 instructors as it transfers the Q Grader program to the SCA. Ratio Coffee launched the Ratio Four Series 2 for pre-order with shipments starting in early November. The Best of Yemen auction set another record with a top lot at $1,878 per kilogram. Brazilian exports to the U.S. are expected to decline further due to tariffs.
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