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𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's Spring (Mar/Apr/May 2026) issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: tinyurl.com/STiR2026Spring

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's Autumn 2025 (Sep/Oct/Nov) issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: tinyurl.com/3ar526h2

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's Summer 2025 (June/July/August) issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: tinyurl.com/tsvw3a8h

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's Spring 2025 (March/April/May) issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: tinyurl.com/33huzsfh

Coffee farms are increasingly adopting biochar for its ability to enhance soil quality and water retention, addressing needs that conventional fertilizers often cannot meet. ☕: tinyurl.com/bdj8w5t4

Yerba mate is the world’s third most popular naturally caffeinated drink, behind tea and coffee. According to reports, when the Argentine football team boarded their flights to Qatar for the World Cup, they carried 240kg of mate leaves with them. ☕: tinyurl.com/mvcf6mb

Angola is pursuing an integrated approach to revive its collapsed but promising coffee industry. The plan involves a mix of government and private financing and new agriculture-focused policy strategies. ☕: tinyurl.com/5n864z6s

Coffee trade giant Volcafe predicts Brazil will produce less than 35 million 60-kilo bags in the 2025/26 season, revising the September estimate downward by 11 million bags to 34.4 million 132-pound bags. ☕: tinyurl.com/2k94vyx6

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑's second newsletter for December - and the last for 2024 - is out! Read up on the latest news and stories around global coffee and tea - sign-up and receive this right in your inbox! ☕: tinyurl.com/54kf66r6

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's August — September 2024 issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: tinyurl.com/STiR2024AugSep

The weather outside Anthem Coffee Imports HQ in Martin City, Kansas (United States) was similar to a typical day on a Nicaraguan coffee farm: hot, sunny, and humid—perfect conditions to create some of the highest-scoring lots... ☕: tinyurl.com/mrx72vr9

China’s $111.5 billion domestic tea market dwarfs all others, but exports have declined over the past two years and are still flat midway through 2024. ☕: tinyurl.com/a9s4mx6z

Kenneth Rimdahl began working with tea in 1993 when he opened the Tea Shop’s first store in Madrid, Spain. After traveling to northern Thailand to source ceramic teapots and accessories, he discovered abandoned tea trees... ☕: tinyurl.com/48z57m6h

The United Kingdom stands out as a nation where tea is a staple, with a significant portion of the population across all income brackets consuming a cuppa daily. ☕: tinyurl.com/y45y7tpd

𝐒𝐓𝐢𝐑 Coffee and Tea's June — July 2024 issue is out! Get updated and be informed on the latest news and issues around global tea and coffee through our interactive e-magazine ☕: bit.ly/STiR2024JunJul

Post-pandemic Romanians are embracing coffee culture. Romania, a country at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, is steadily growing these days, thanks to generally stable local consumption and improving local economics. ☕: tinyurl.com/ycy64fdv

Spring sprung weeks ahead of schedule as global temperatures reached a record high, stressing tea plants in both hemispheres. ☕: tinyurl.com/2sa6ftj2

The Ethiopian government is opening up its raw coffee sector and other areas to foreign investment for the first time since 1992. ☕: tinyurl.com/bs6vthbj

Researchers at the University of Georgia report that 10 seconds of contact with black tea deactivates 99.9% of COVID-19 in saliva. ☕: tinyurl.com/mrpnbh78

The NCA’s Spring 2024 National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report proves the US coffee market is thriving. ☕: tinyurl.com/b85c5d5r