Coffee News Roundup: Week Ending July 14th
“Some of my regulars I used to have will still come and get coffee and say, ‘We had to bring lunch. We just brought it in from home.'”
This week in coffee news:
Ethiopian coffee is becoming ever more popular in China, and Ethiopian exporters are looking to take advantage.
Australia’s much-vaunted coffee industry is suffering under the strains of inflation and the worldwide cost-of-living crisis. This is causing many cafes to close (while, predictably, blaming rising wages).
Researchers in Hawaii have found that cultural control-focused management—field sanitation, frequent harvesting, and strip-picking with relatively little applied pesticide—is more effective against the coffee berry borer than simply spraying the plants with pesticides. Bonus: higher net profits.
Plus there’s lots more union happenings. Read the full roundup over at Fresh Cup Magazine:
In case you missed it, you can check out my latest article here:
Until next week, it’s goodbye from Merlin:
