Coffee Leaf Rust: It’s Coming for Your Morning Joe

Ric Rhinehart, executive director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, recently explained to me that organic smallholders are “in a terrible place,” because “the best possible solution is an application of [synthetic] fungicides.” Such fungicides are banned by organic standards. Only 3 percent of the crops in Guatemala are …

Organic coffee benefits

Organic coffee ( link esterno ) does cost a little more, some of this is due to the monitoring of the growing …