STiR coffee and tea magazine

4 STiR coffee and tea / Issue 5, 2018 (October / November) Contents: STiR Coffee and Tea Vol 7 No 4 August / September 2018 40 Private Lable Pod Performance 28 Coffee Farming in California 58 The Prefect Grind 38 Precision Agriculture Features: 14 Q|A Farhad Pirouz Responsible packaging conserves tea 22 ASIC Portland Coffee science is the foundation of education and standards 28 Growing Coffee on the Frinj Southern California farmers successfully cultivate at scale 36 Brazilian Bounty An historic harvest of "spectacular coffee" sets new record 40 Pod Performance Private label packers benefit from scale as single-serve slows 46 Getting to Normal Illycaffè supports coffee cultivation in post-conflict Colombia 50 FSMA: Time to Ramp Up Compliance FDA intends to step up enforcement of food safety regulations 52 Foreign Supplier Verification Advisory Importers must insure foreign suppliers meet US safety standards 54 How Far Will Prices Fall? ICE futures dip to 95 cents per pound due to rampant speculation 58 Precise Perfection Precision grinding is essential to coffee capsule extraction 64 Home Brewed Japanese intent on brewing barista quality coffee at home News & Views: UpFront 6 Coffee Pricing Crisis On the Cover 6 From the Managing Editor 8 Unconcerned About Retail Consolidation News 10 Tea Spared in China/US Trade War Starbucks Pledges $20M for Smallholders Latte Levy's Unintended Toll Brian Keating Passes Equipment News 12 Rychiger Celebrates 100th Anniversary Spreafico Moves into New Headquarters Dunkin to Spend $50 Million on New Equipment Global Coffee Report 16 Global Tea Report 24 What's Next in STiR? 70 Events Calendar 72 Advertisers' Index 74

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