{"id":16341,"date":"2025-07-25T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/07\/25\/coffee-prices-slump-as-brazil\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:13:00","slug":"coffee-prices-slump-as-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/07\/25\/coffee-prices-slump-as-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Prices Slump as Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"layout__region nsdq-l-grid__item syndicated-article-body\">\n<section class=\"jupiter22-c-article-body\">\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div class=\"body__content\">\n<p>September arabica coffee (KCU25) on Friday closed down -7.30 (-2.39%), and September ICE robusta coffee (RMU25) closed down -121 (-3.61%).<\/p>\n<p>Coffee prices settled sharply lower Friday and have been undercut this week by Brazil coffee harvest pressures. \u00a0On Tuesday, arabica fell to a 2-week low, Sep robusta slid to a contract low, and nearest-futures (N25) robusta sank to a 1.25-year low. \u00a0 On Friday, Safras &#038; Mercado reported that Brazil&#8217;s overall 2025\/26 coffee harvest was 84% complete as of July 23, ahead of the comparable level of 81% last year and the 5-year average of 77%. \u00a0The breakdown showed that 96% of the robusta harvest and 76% of the arabica harvest were complete as of July 23. \u00a0In related news, Brazil&#8217;s Cooxupe coffee co-op announced Tuesday that its harvest among its members was 59% complete as of July 18. \u00a0Cooxupe is Brazil&#8217;s largest coffee cooperative and Brazil&#8217;s largest exporter group. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-UDE\"  class=\"btf-bodymidpagetwothirdswidth-1\">          <script type=\"text\/javascript\">         googletag.cmd.push(function() {             \/\/ Check if ID matches ID in the window.adsList array before calling googletag.display             function isAdInAdsList(id) {             for (var i = 0; i < window.adsList.length; i++) {                 if (window.adsList[i].id === id) {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         }         if (isAdInAdsList('js-dfp-tag-UDE')) {             googletag.display('js-dfp-tag-UDE');         }         });     <\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>     <span>Don\u2019t Miss a Day: <\/span> From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart\u2019s best-in-class commodity analysis.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Improved weather forecasts for Brazil are also weighing on coffee prices. \u00a0Forecasts have warmed over the next week for Brazil's coffee-growing regions, reducing the chances of frost that could harm the country's coffee crops.<\/p>\n<p>On the bearish side for robusta is an increase in ICE-monitored inventories. \u00a0Robusta coffee inventories rose to a 1-year high of 6,882 lots Friday. \u00a0Conversely, ICE-monitored arabica coffee inventories fell to a 3-month low of 802,678 bags on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Excessive dryness in Brazil is a supportive factor for coffee prices. \u00a0Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil's largest arabica coffee-growing area, Minas Gerais, received no rain during the week ended July 19.<\/p>\n<p>An excessive short position by funds in robusta coffee could exacerbate any short-covering rally in robusta coffee futures. \u00a0ICE Futures Europe reported Friday that funds boosted their net-short positions in ICE robusta futures by 3,334 to 4,628 short positions in the week ended July 22, the most in two years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-fLA\"  class=\"btf-bodymidpagetwothirdswidth-2\">          <script type=\"text\/javascript\">         googletag.cmd.push(function() {             \/\/ Check if ID matches ID in the window.adsList array before calling googletag.display             function isAdInAdsList(id) {             for (var i = 0; i < window.adsList.length; i++) {                 if (window.adsList[i].id === id) {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         }         if (isAdInAdsList('js-dfp-tag-fLA')) {             googletag.display('js-dfp-tag-fLA');         }         });     <\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Smaller coffee exports from Brazil are positive for prices after Cecafe reported last Wednesday that Brazil's total Jun green coffee exports fell -31% y\/y to 2.3 million bags, with arabica exports down -27% y\/y to 1.8 million bags and robusta exports down -42% y\/y to 476,334 bags. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arabica coffee prices received support from President Trump's recent announcement that he would impose 50% tariffs on US imports from Brazil, effective August 1. \u00a0That threat caused concern that coffee supplies could be disrupted from Brazil, the world's largest producer of arabica coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee prices have retreated over the past two months on the outlook for abundant coffee supplies. \u00a0On June 25, the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) forecasted that Brazil's 2025\/26 coffee production will increase by +0.5% y\/y to 65 million bags and that Vietnam's 2025\/26 coffee output will rise by 6.9% y\/y to a 4-year high of 31 million bags. \u00a0Brazil is the world's largest producer of arabica coffee, and Vietnam is the world's largest producer of robusta coffee.<\/p>\n<p>Due to drought, Vietnam's coffee production in the 2023\/24 crop year decreased by -20% y\/y to 1.472 MMT, the smallest crop in four years. \u00a0Also, Vietnam's General Statistics Office reported that 2024 Vietnam coffee exports fell by -17.1% y\/y to 1.35 MMT. \u00a0 Additionally, the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association reduced its 2024\/25 Vietnam coffee production estimate to 26.5 million bags on March 12, down from a December estimate of 28 million bags. \u00a0By contrast, the Vietnam National Statistics Office reported on July 7 that Vietnam's Jan-Jun 2025 coffee exports were up +4.1% y\/y to 943,000 MT.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA's biannual report, released on June 25, was bearish for coffee prices. \u00a0The USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) projected that world coffee production in 2025\/26 will increase by +2.5% y\/y to a record 178.68 million bags, with a -1.7% decrease in arabica production to 97.022 million bags and a +7.9% increase in robusta production to 81.658 million bags. \u00a0The USDA's FAS forecasts that 2025\/26 ending stocks will climb by +4.9% to 22.819 million bags from 21.752 million bags in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-fGQ\"  class=\"btf-bodymidpagetwothirdswidth-3\">          <script type=\"text\/javascript\">         googletag.cmd.push(function() {             \/\/ Check if ID matches ID in the window.adsList array before calling googletag.display             function isAdInAdsList(id) {             for (var i = 0; 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