What??? 'indigenous peoples' 'of color' wanted to turn a buck and not 'save the planet' ???
I won’t consume anything organic!!!
I’ll stick with my Folgers.
I guess the organic kids in Birkenstocks have started to count their pennies.
De Leon is asking $2 per pound for the unroasted coffee, about 50 cents more than the going price. But he says he’ll soon have to sell it as conventionally grown coffee, which sells for less.
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Supply and demand sure is a bitch!
Now the green-freak libs won't even pay a measley 25% premium for pure organic coffee? What's the world coming to? Next thing you know they won't even pay 50% more for pure, non-carboniferous, windmill-made electrons unless the government makes them!
Here in Vermont we have a LOT of organic coffee and fair-prices-to-the-growers coffee.
Actually my wife once bought a five-pound bag of this hippie coffee, on sale at the local co-op. It was the best coffee I've ever tasted, but I wouldn't want to pay full price for it. The name of it is a real hoot. But it's delicious. I hope we can get some more one day, if it ever goes on sale again.
The dude needs to sell it direct to consumers online. The *real* free market. :)
The article doesn’t make any sense. The demand for it is going up, but the price is going down?
Well at least it isn’t Starbucks!
Probably not.
I have been a customer of the same coffee roaster for over 15 years, and I have had to switch to a blended coffee, due to the low quality of their Columbian beans. If they could find good quality, they could find someone to buy it. Trust me, I would be first in line.
Hello, my name is bigredkitty1 and I am a caffeine addict.
I prefer organic coffee.
that’s too bad, organic coffee is delicious.
Maybe they should plan to expand in order to help these growers out.
132 lb. bags
Guatemalan coffee is NOT bagged in 132 lb. bags.
It is measured by the POUND, not the Kilo. Period. Dot.
150 lb. bags, 250 of which make one trading unit = 37,500 lbs., which is about as much as can be loaded into a truck without exceeding 80,000 lb gross vehicle weight limits...
Other localities bag their green coffee differently. Colombia bags in 70 Kilo increments (154-155+ lb.s depending upon the leakage through the weave, by the time it leaves a U.S. shipper's dock).
Most Asian coffees are bagged in 60 Kilo (132+lb.) bags.
Sumatra, Java, New Guinea, Sulawesi, Flores, etc., all bag in 60 Kilo, along with every African coffee I've dealt with.
Hmmm, I'm thinking Colombia is the only with 70 Kilo. Even Panama (if memory serves) bags in 150 lb. Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, & Brazil , all bag 150 lb. NOT "Kilos".
Obviously, the news writer doesn't know beans.
The real "high grown" coffee from whichever nation, doesn't even much need the 'organic' labeling.
If it is truly high grown, the pests typical to coffees in lower elevations are generally not present, hence the lack of pesticide use for those locales.
In the high altitudes, non-organic fertilizers are pretty much unheard of, too.
The 'organic' labeling for such coffees is superfluous, not to mention expensive to get, and at least used to have such stipulations that the ripe cherry couldn't be gathered into 5 gallon plastic buckets, but had to be put into baskets made of 'native orgainic materials', preferably woven indigenously...
Which has nothing to do with being "organic" unless one is a Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange sycophant.
$1.50 -$2/pound for raw beans?
For the difference in prices at the store for roasted beans, I could use one of those 132# bags, and do my own roasting...
What did he say his phone number was?
First off, all grocery coffee is stale. Roasted coffee stales in about three to five days after roasting. There is a point between twelve hours and three days that the coffee is typically at it's peak flavor.
Second, many store-bought coffees are not all Arabica beans, which is the most flavorful type. Many grocery brands are cut with Robusta beans, which boosts caffeine and can be grown at lower altitudes and better harvested with machinery.
Organic or not, the best coffees can be found at small coffee farms, where attention to detail both in cultivation and cherry selection. Most of what I buy comes from a lefty group known as Sweet Marias (www.sweetmarias.com). I don't question their politics - I just enjoy some of the best coffees the world has to offer. You would be very surprised at the variety of tastes and flavors you can find between different origins and farms.
This is my roaster:
It's a nice hobby, and the best thing is - like beer brewing - you have something very good that not many store brands can duplicate.
Why don’t we get the Afganny poppy farmers to grow coffee instead?