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(21,210 posts) Mon Mar 3, 2025, 07:25 PM Mar 3

Brazil's coffee stockpiles dwindle as prices hit record highs

Source: Reuters

By Roberto Samora and Marcelo Teixeira
March 3, 2025 5:02 AM EST

Summary

Brazil's coffee stockpile nearly depleted due to drought and high global prices
Farmers sold most of 2024 crop, leaving low inventory levels
Roasters face challenges as coffee prices soar, quality may decline

GUAXUPE, Brazil, March 3 (Reuters) - In a Brazilian coffee warehouse usually stuffed with a quarter of a million bags of the aromatic bean, voices echo in the largely empty space at a large producers' cooperative.

Reeling from one of the worst droughts on record, Brazil's coffee farmers have sold almost all their beans months before the new crop as global prices have nearly doubled to all-time highs in the past 14 months.

Consumers waking up to smell the coffee were jolted last year as Starbucks hiked the price of a large cup of fresh brew about 16% to as much as $3.85. Nespresso coffee-pod subscribers will soon pay up to $1.45 per basic pod, up from $1.30.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/brazils-coffee-stockpiles-dwindle-prices-hit-record-highs-2025-03-03/

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Brazil's coffee stockpiles dwindle as prices hit record highs (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Mar 3 OP

Geez, I remember in 1975, you could get a six ounce cup of Joe in a no_hypocrisy Mar 3 #1

heh and probably a gallon of gas Skittles Mar 3 #4

That's around the time that I was away at school and I remember one time when my cousin drove me Rhiannon12866 Mar 4 #8

heh Skittles Mar 4 #9

Oh, same here! Rhiannon12866 Mar 4 #10

And it absolutely sucked NT GenThePerservering Mar 4 #16

I only buy 100% Colombian coffee FakeNoose Mar 3 #2

A nice tariff will fix this problem. Norrrm Mar 3 #3

LOL. Tariffs and taxs cuts to the wealthy. Redleg Mar 6 #19

I'm sure we can just grow our own coffee beans here! The Felon will just issue an EO and voila! Raftergirl Mar 3 #5

That's the "silver lining" of global warming OKIsItJustMe Mar 3 #6

Kona Coffee from Hawai'i is my favorite. DJ Synikus Makisimus Mar 4 #7

I'm not a coffee aficionado. A regular medium roast any brand will do for me. We occasionally buy Raftergirl Mar 4 #12

Will just have to try to make it on beans brought from Kenya JCMach1 Mar 4 #11

I ordered a "short ton" of whole beans from my favorite supplier OKIsItJustMe Mar 4 #13

My wife is Kenyan (American now), but we have connections JCMach1 Mar 4 #14

I've had (and enjoyed) Kenyan coffee OKIsItJustMe Mar 4 #15

Freshness is the key. Most people have never tasted JCMach1 Mar 4 #17

Too true OKIsItJustMe Mar 4 #18

I have Rainman4u2C Mar 7 #20

no_hypocrisy

(51,287 posts)

1. Geez, I remember in 1975, you could get a six ounce cup of Joe in a

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 07:32 PM

Mar 3

Styrofoam cup for 30 cents.

Skittles

(163,610 posts)

4. heh and probably a gallon of gas

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 09:39 PM

Mar 3

Rhiannon12866

(232,840 posts)

8. That's around the time that I was away at school and I remember one time when my cousin drove me

Reply to Skittles (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 04:01 AM

Mar 4

We stopped at a station right on the highway for gas which was 47 cents a gallon. And my cousin said this was too expensive, that we'd need to find another station.

Skittles

(163,610 posts)

9. heh

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 05:47 AM

Mar 4

I was thinking the other day, I am SO glad I got to experience life before home computers, cell phones, Reagan, Walmart, etc

yes INDEED

Rhiannon12866

(232,840 posts)

10. Oh, same here!

Reply to Skittles (Reply #9)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 05:55 AM

Mar 4

I read about all the equipment that kids now bring to school and it boggles the mind! I know there was a computer (somewhere in the library) at my college - but no one that I knew ever even saw it, let alone used it - except one of the girls I lived with senior year who was a math major and babysat the computer on weekends. I thought I was lucky when my Dad bought me a calculator.

GenThePerservering

(2,806 posts)

16. And it absolutely sucked NT

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:38 PM

Mar 4

FakeNoose

(37,216 posts)

2. I only buy 100% Colombian coffee

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 07:59 PM

Mar 3

And trust me, it's very easy to tell the difference between Colombian and Brazilian beans.

Norrrm

(1,280 posts)

3. A nice tariff will fix this problem.

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 08:46 PM

Mar 3

??? Of course not!

Redleg

(6,465 posts)

19. LOL. Tariffs and taxs cuts to the wealthy.

Reply to Norrrm (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 6, 2025, 10:16 PM

Mar 6

Under the old GOP is was tax cuts to solve every problem. At least Trump added one more tool to their kit.

Raftergirl

(1,668 posts)

5. I'm sure we can just grow our own coffee beans here! The Felon will just issue an EO and voila!

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 10:45 PM

Mar 3

OKIsItJustMe

(21,210 posts)

6. That's the "silver lining" of global warming

Reply to Raftergirl (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 10:50 PM

Mar 3

Soon, we will be able to…

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,010 posts)

7. Kona Coffee from Hawai'i is my favorite.

Reply to Raftergirl (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 03:54 AM

Mar 4

Get the 100% Kona, not a Kona blend (they usually suck). You may not like the price, however. Coffee is much cheaper when impoverished peasants do the planting, picking and packing.

Raftergirl

(1,668 posts)

12. I'm not a coffee aficionado. A regular medium roast any brand will do for me. We occasionally buy

Reply to DJ Synikus Makisimus (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 10:24 AM

Mar 4

whole beans but aren’t married to a particular kind. I usually buy based on if I like the package!

It’s not price that determines my coffee purchases.

JCMach1

(28,616 posts)

11. Will just have to try to make it on beans brought from Kenya

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 09:06 AM

Mar 4

From family and friends. Also, have been stocking up on instant.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,210 posts)

13. I ordered a "short ton" of whole beans from my favorite supplier

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 12:32 PM

Mar 4

I don’t expect the price to fall any time soon.

JCMach1

(28,616 posts)

14. My wife is Kenyan (American now), but we have connections

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:18 PM

Mar 4

Back in Kenya where we can get green in roasted bean from either farmers or the local coop.

Kenyan beans are top notch.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,210 posts)

15. I've had (and enjoyed) Kenyan coffee

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #14)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:32 PM

Mar 4

For some reason, “my guy” doesn’t seem to stock Kenyan beans any more. Perhaps it wasn’t selling fast enough. (He likes everything to be fresh.)

JCMach1

(28,616 posts)

17. Freshness is the key. Most people have never tasted

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 01:49 PM

Mar 4

Freshly roasted coffee.

OKIsItJustMe

(21,210 posts)

18. Too true

Reply to JCMach1 (Reply #17)

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 02:02 PM

Mar 4

Me, I scoop enough beans for 12oz of coffee into my manual grinder. From there, it goes straight into my “French Press”…

Rainman4u2C

(56 posts)

20. I have

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Fri Mar 7, 2025, 12:55 AM

Mar 7

had Starbucks coffee 2 times in my life and was cornered into it both times. It sucked and I poured it out both times. Anyone who would pay $4 for shitty coffee has neither good financial sense or a sense for what truly good coffee is!!

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