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The frost that unexpectedly hit Brazil\u2019s coffee farms last week took producers by surprise and caused the commodity C price to ripple briefly as concerns that it would affect the 2020 harvest were raised (and quickly deflated) by reports from within the country.<\/p>\n
However, while most of the coverage from Reuters<\/a>, Bloomberg<\/a>, et al, was focused on the big commodity players (and, of course, the impact on investors), small specialty farmers were also in the cold front\u2019s path, with fewer resources to cope with the sudden changes and more reliance on every last tree to produce.<\/p>\n Reached in Serra Negra, Brazil, agronomist and coffee consultant Jonas Ferraresso<\/a> told Sprudge that nearly every farmer he spoke with had suffered some damage: \u201cI received pictures and videos from many agronomists and farmers from different regions, and almost all reported frost damage.<\/p>\n \u201cEven farms where the frost was not severe, the leaves were damaged by small fissures, which will increase [the risk of] disease spreading in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n Ferraresso said that, although this year\u2019s harvest won\u2019t be harmed, the effect on next year\u2019s crop remains unpredictable as farmers will have to wait until the first rains in August to evaluate losses.<\/p>\n The cold snap hit just as industry leaders from around the world met in Campinas, Brazil, for the World Coffee Producers Forum, in part to address the global coffee price crisis. However, according to Ferraresso many of the small and medium farmers he has spoken with weren\u2019t in attendance, with most unable to afford the admission price.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are in the middle of the harvest season in Brazil,\u201d says Ferraresso, \u201cso farmers are struggling to harvest their coffee in a not expansive way, and doing a lot of math to save money, and keep the farm running until next season.\u201d<\/p>\n Fionn Pooler is a journalist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the publisher of\u00a0The Pourover<\/a>.\u00a0Read more Fionn Pooler on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Top image via Parana\u00edba Agora<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The post Unexpected Frost Brings Uncertainty To Brazilian Coffee Production<\/a> appeared first on Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The frost that unexpectedly hit Brazil\u2019s coffee farms last week took producers by surprise and caused the commodity C price to ripple briefly as concerns that it would affect the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}