As much as the best baristas in America can control a cup of coffee when the kettles are steaming and the scales are beeping, the fate of a bean is sealed far earlier, while still in its green state ...

Coffee is one of the most heavily traded export commodities in the world. It grows in about 70 countries, within a relatively narrow area just north and south of the equator. Broadly speaking, two ...

Coffee trees — which tend to grow in tropical areas about 3,500 feet above sea level, will bear fruit, or coffee cherries, every year for approximately 25 years until they need replanting. When they ...