Brazilian farm officials flag high hopes for this year’s coffee harvest, but warn that low prices are already raising doubts over 2014 prospects

The ICO reports raised estimates for damage caused by Central America’s coffee rust epidemic, which it warns will cause “significant social impact”

The International Coffee Organization flags the “convergence” between Vietnam and top-ranked Brazil in coffee exports – just as the trend may reverse

The coffee giant reveals that its bean purchases have slowed to a crawl this year, even as ABN Amro foresees a drop in prices to the lowest since 2009

Arabica coffee futures suffer their second biggest fall of 2013 after Goldman Sachs cuts price forecasts. But live cattle futures ride out a downgrade

The value of Brazil’s coffee harvest will fall by nearly one-third this year, demoting the sector behind citrus in the agricultural output league

The lender, citing prospects of large harvests, cuts grain price hopes by up to $1 a bushel, and says only cocoa and coffee have “upside potential”

The International Coffee Organization terms the coffee rust outbreak “one of the worst on record”, but adds to its estimate for world output anyway

Robusta coffee prices have the support of “the most bullish indicator that there could be”, a leading analyst says. Arabica coffee, signally, does not

Louis Dreyfus Commodities unveils a rise in profits, and plans for investment in areas from Peruvian coffee to Asian feed to global dairy