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‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira October 23, 2021

New York | Reuters — Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice, hoping to avoid shipping delays caused by container shortages and port congestion the industry is calling “containergeddon,” according to traders. Container-based transportation has been hit by sky-high costs and delays amid booming shipping

Farmer Jay Ruskey, the chief executive of FRINJ Coffee, drives his truck around his farm in California, where he planted coffee trees.

News

Wake up and smell the coffee…

Global warming is shifting the Coffee Belt northward

By Marcelo Teixeira October 5, 2021

Reuters – Farmer David Armstrong recently finished planting what is likely the most challenging crop his family has ever cultivated since his ancestors started farming in 1865 — 20,000 coffee trees. Except Armstrong is not in the tropics of Central America — he is in Ventura, California, just 60 miles (97 km) away from downtown Los Angeles.

A customer dines at a Burger King outlet in Shanghai on June 27, 2005. (File photo: Reuters/Ming Ming)

Livestock, Markets

Restaurant Brands to boost outlets by 54 per cent within 10 years

By GFM Network News May 15, 2019

Reuters — Restaurant Brands International said on Wednesday it plans to expand all three of its brands to more than 40,000 restaurants globally, a 54 per cent jump, over the next decade. Big fast food chains, including McDonald’s and KFC owner Yum Brands, have been aggressively expanding their international operations to counter slowing growth in

Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: Tim Hortons goes east

An aggressive plan to expand into China has been unveiled

By Sylvain Charlebois July 24, 2018

Tim Hortons is going where the growth is: east to China. The Canadian institution announced it will expand its portfolio of 4,700 restaurants by signing a joint venture partnership with a Chinese-based equity firm. Tim Hortons currently has locations in the United States, the Arab Emirates, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom, and it intends

Tim Hortons to enter China

By GFM Network News July 11, 2018

Reuters — Canadian coffee-and-donut chain Tim Hortons will open 1,500 outlets in China over the next decade, capitalizing on a growing cafe culture in the world’s second-largest economy, the chain’s parent Restaurant Brands International said on Wednesday. Restaurant Brands shares rose almost three per cent after the company announced the Tim Hortons move into China

Markets

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News May 29, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supply and exports of farm produce from one of the world’s agricultural commodity powerhouses. Brazil is the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chickens. The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Latin America’s largest economy, emptied Brazilian roadways and left major

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in North America, with the  majority of the population consuming it daily.

Other, Recipe Swap

Coffee time

If you are a coffee drinker,  you are not alone; nearly two out  of three people have coffee daily

By Julie Garden-Robinson April 20, 2018

Do you start your day with a cup of coffee or two? Many people do. I remember the “egg coffee” that accompanied the traditional Scandinavian church dinners in my hometown. A raw egg was added to the coffee grounds before the coffee was cooked in a big pot on the stove. As a kid, I

Crops

Second Cup to set up cannabis lounges in West

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 12, 2018

Updated, April 13 — Canada’s No. 2 specialty coffeehouse chain has a partnership deal in place to convert some of its outlets in Western Canada to recreational cannabis shops and lounges. Second Cup on Thursday announced a “strategic alliance” with National Access Cannabis Corp. (NAC) to roll out a network of NAC-branded recreational cannabis dispensaries,

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

Crops

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which

Tea and coffee both contain caffeine but tea has some other health benefits.

Recipe Swap

Which is better for you, coffee or tea?

Both are fine beverage choices but tea contains numerous compounds with potential health benefits and even may help with weight management

By Julie Garden-Robinson March 16, 2018

I think I started drinking coffee at about age 11, about the same time I learned how to drive a stick-shift pickup truck. I wasn’t a particularly good driver, but I could drive around a farmyard without hitting any sheds or the barn. I could make a mean cup of coffee in our percolator from

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Meatpackers rethink beef exports to US after Trump tariffs, industry lobby says

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Corn futures edge up, soybeans sag on improving US crop ratings

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures up, hogs mixed

Meatpackers rethink beef exports to US after Trump tariffs, industry lobby says

Tag Archives Coffee

‘Containergeddon’ drives sugar, rice shippers back to bulk vessels

Wake up and smell the coffee…

Restaurant Brands to boost outlets by 54 per cent within 10 years

Comment: Tim Hortons goes east

Tim Hortons to enter China

Chickens culled as Brazil truckers disrupt commodity exports

Coffee time

Second Cup to set up cannabis lounges in West

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Which is better for you, coffee or tea?

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