Brazil

Brazil’s coffee producing landscape is so far-reaching it’s difficult to grasp. Brazil is one of the only countries where it is possible to wake up at dawn, drive a few hours to a regional airport, take a two hour flight, land, drive for another few hours, and never once lose the sight of shimmering green rows of coffee about as far as you can see.For over 150 years Brazil has been the world’s largest coffee producer by far. The single state of Minas Gerais alone produces more coffee than any other entire country. Needless to say, Brazil’s outsized influence on the global market is self-evident due to its output: a single day of frost or month of drought can send speculators reeling and C prices will follow. The size of Brazil’s crop, typically a whole third of global arabica supply, has a direct tie to the value of coffee futures, and therefore a direct economic effect on coffee producers worldwide, whose financial fates rest annually on the C level during their harvest months.