Back to the Regularly Scheduled Coffee Season
Excitement's over folks, back to work.
It's a mild coffee season here in Kona. Not terribly bad, but nowhere near good. I'm hitting my biggest round right now. The beans are beautiful, huge and very very ripe coming off the trees. Should be tasty coffee. The downside is that I'll just have one more small round in November and should be done by early December. My guess is that I'll be down about 50% from last year's bumper yield. I'm hearing similar reports from some other farms.
The wholesale price is at $1.25 per pound cherry (30 days net). Still not great, nor livable. Usually a poor year bumps prices. Since it's not, I'm not selling any cherry. Instead, I am processing every single bean I can fit onto my hoshidana. With the scarcity, the price for parchment (dried coffee) should rise in the offseason. It's called "value-added", and it's how the modern farmgirl survives.
Selling roasted coffee is the ultimate value-added move. Glad I took that Econ course in college.
It's a mild coffee season here in Kona. Not terribly bad, but nowhere near good. I'm hitting my biggest round right now. The beans are beautiful, huge and very very ripe coming off the trees. Should be tasty coffee. The downside is that I'll just have one more small round in November and should be done by early December. My guess is that I'll be down about 50% from last year's bumper yield. I'm hearing similar reports from some other farms.
The wholesale price is at $1.25 per pound cherry (30 days net). Still not great, nor livable. Usually a poor year bumps prices. Since it's not, I'm not selling any cherry. Instead, I am processing every single bean I can fit onto my hoshidana. With the scarcity, the price for parchment (dried coffee) should rise in the offseason. It's called "value-added", and it's how the modern farmgirl survives.
Selling roasted coffee is the ultimate value-added move. Glad I took that Econ course in college.
1 Comments:
This is great stuff. I'll have to order up some of your beans as soon as the Holiday season has passed and my finances have recovered. Good bloggin'.
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