{"id":4848,"date":"2025-03-21T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/03\/21\/arabica-coffee-posts-a-2-week-high-on-brazil-crop-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:15:00","slug":"arabica-coffee-posts-a-2-week-high-on-brazil-crop-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharewatch.com\/wp\/2025\/03\/21\/arabica-coffee-posts-a-2-week-high-on-brazil-crop-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabica Coffee Posts a 2-Week High on Brazil Crop Concerns"},"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>May arabica coffee (KCK25) Thursday closed up +1.10 (+0.28%), and May ICE robusta coffee (RMK25) closed down -30 (-0.548%).<\/p>\n<p>Coffee prices Thursday settled mixed, with arabica climbing to a 2-week high. \u00a0 Insufficient rain in Brazil threatens coffee crops and is bullish for prices. \u00a0Somar Meteorologia reported Monday that Brazil&#8217;s biggest arabica coffee growing area of Minas Gerais received 30.8 mm of rain in the week ended March 15, or 71% of the historical average. \u00a0Arabica coffee added to its gain Thursday after Cooxupe, Brazil&#8217;s largest arabica coffee co-operative, said high temperatures and below-normal rainfall last month in Brazil should negatively affect coffee yields this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-R_o\"  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; 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i < window.adsList.length; i++) {                 if (window.adsList[i].id === id) {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         }         if (isAdInAdsList('js-dfp-tag-214')) {             googletag.display('js-dfp-tag-214');         }         });     <\/script> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The impact of dry El Nino weather last year may lead to longer-term coffee crop damage in South and Central America. \u00a0Rainfall in Brazil has consistently been below average since last April, damaging coffee trees during the all-important flowering stage and reducing the prospects for Brazil's 2025\/26 arabica coffee crop. \u00a0Brazil has been facing the driest weather since 1981, according to the natural disaster monitoring center Cemaden. \u00a0Also, Colombia, the world's second-largest arabica producer, is slowly recovering from the El Nino-spurred drought last year.<\/p>\n<p>Robusta coffee prices are underpinned by reduced robusta production. \u00a0Due to drought, Vietnam's coffee production in the 2023\/24 crop year dropped by -20% to 1.472 MMT, the smallest crop in four years. \u00a0The USDA FAS on May 31 projected that Vietnam's robusta coffee production in the new marketing year of 2024\/25 will dip slightly to 27.9 million bags from 28 million bags in the 2023\/24 season. \u00a0In addition, Vietnam's General Statistics Office reported on January 10 that 2024 Vietnam coffee exports fell -17.1% y\/y to 1.35 MMT. \u00a0Also, the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association last Wednesday cut its 2024\/25 Vietnam coffee production estimate to 26.5 million bags from a December estimate of 28 million bags. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News of larger global coffee exports is bearish for prices. \u00a0Conab reported on February 4 that Brazil's 2024 coffee exports rose +28.8% y\/y to a record 50.5 million bags. \u00a0 However, ICO reported on February 6 that Dec global coffee exports fell -12.4% y\/y to 10.73 million bags, and Oct-Dec global coffee exports fell -0.8% y\/y to 32.25 million bags.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA's biannual report on December 18 was mixed for coffee prices. \u00a0The USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) projected that world coffee production in 2024\/25 will increase +4.0% y\/y to 174.855 million bags, with a +1.5% increase in arabica production to 97.845 million bags and a +7.5% increase in robusta production to 77.01 million bags. \u00a0The USDA's FAS forecasts that 2024\/25 ending stocks will fall by -6.6% to a 25-year low of 20.867 million bags from 22.347 million bags in 2023\/24. \u00a0Separately, the USDA's FAS on November 22 projected Brazil's 2024\/25 coffee production at 66.4 MMT, below its previous forecast of 69.9 MMT. \u00a0The USDA's FAS projects Brazil's coffee inventories at 1.2 million bags at the end of the 2024\/25 season in June, down -26% y\/y.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2025\/26 marketing year, Volcafe on December 17 cut its 2025\/26 Brazil arabica coffee production estimate to 34.4 million bags, down by about 11 million bags from a September estimate after a crop tour revealed the severity of an extended drought in Brazil. \u00a0Volcafe projects a global 2025\/26 arabica coffee deficit of -8.5 million bags, wider than the -5.5 million bag deficit for 2024\/25 and the fifth consecutive year of deficits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"ads__inline\">\n<div id=\"js-dfp-tag-mM4\"  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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