Origin Updates-News from the ground

Colombia + Brazil

Colombia is currently experiencing the La Nina weather pattern which attributes higher rainfall and cooler conditions for the coffee regions. Main crop flowering is generally around March and a wetter January of February generally mean less successful flowering and lower fruit set. Not a disaster at all but yields may be lower, let's hope things dry up a bit for main crop leading into March!

On a more positive note Brazil is experiencing perfect average rainfall throughout November, December and January. Great news for the growing season. If the trend continues into the third quarter of this year we could be on the verge of a bumper crop for Brazil. At this stage rainfall is on track with the record breaking harvests of 2020. If these weather patterns continue any downfall in harvests of Colombia will be made up by Brazil.

Central America

Reports are that 70% of the harvest is complete already. Countries that are included in this CA belt are Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Panama. Projections are that total production is up 4.5% on last year and quality appears to be good.

C Price 

The Arabica Commodity price (C-price) made a new all time high in the last quarter of 2025 peaking at $4.39 US/LB. Since then the market has been in a corrective phase and prices have come down a little to just above the $3 mark. Prices remain high and the chart looks stubborn and any roaster who has contracted their green in the last 6 months will be staring down the barrel of another price rise. It really is the new norm. We had an excellent run of stable coffee prices from 2013-2021 but that is in the rear vision now. You need only to look at a bag of supermarket coffee to see how much prices have jumped! 

As always we remain resilient and proactive on bringing you the best coffee we possible can. 

Enjoy your Daily Ritual xx