Posts in specialty markets
Starting the Price Risk Management Conversation re:Coffee

Globalized agriculture markets carry within them great price volatility due to many extraneous variables like seasonality, water conditions, and pest-management to name a few. Here I want to begin the conversation on how a globalized market can work with the farmers to provide them with prices high enough to sustain them through the off-season or drought years. Check out this interview: http://coffeelands.crs.org/2015/11/conversations-in-prm-part-3-jorge-cuevas-a-shared-cost-approach-to-price-insurance/

 

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Chocolate Landscape 2015

Next year marks the 10th anniversary of craft chocolate. In this time the industry has grown and changed with no signs of stopping. Specialty Chocolate to the American consumer can be a very personally rewarding relationship and for most people when you start adding $10+ bars on the table it can create an immediately alienating atmosphere. It’s better to work up to the higher end slowly, and I think the Wine and Coffee industries have done a good job at setting a tone like that.

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