May 1, 2023

Will consumers keep paying higher prices for specialty coffee?

Over the past year or so, rising food prices and energy costs have been affecting many people around the world. In fact, in March 2023,...

September 22, 2022

How much of the final price of a cup of coffee do farmers receive?

Over the past year or so, coffee prices have been steadily increasing. The first sign that prices would increase was a sudden frost which hit...

February 26, 2021

How can coffee roasters drive change at origin?

The coffee industry is huge. In August 2020, the ICO reported that approximately 10.4 million 60kg bags of coffee had been exported in the 2019/20...

April 9, 2020

Coffee Pricing: Why We Need to Know Farmgate And Not Just FOB

What did the farmer who grew your coffee get paid?  Finding an answer to this simple question is challenging. So challenging, in fact, that most...