Why the Price of Coffee Beans Soared in the Last Year
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Agricultural commodities have generally surged in price over the last year. One commodity that's gone particularly wild is the coffee bean. Arabica beans — those at the premium end — are up about 100% since January 2021. So what's going on? Well, part of it is the generalized inflation, but like many other ags, weather has a lot to do with it. To start, bad weather in Brazil has had a negative impact on supply. On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Ryan Delany, a longtime player in the space and founder of the Coffee Trading Academy, to understand how this market works, and what's driven the huge price swing.
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| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Adlots podcast. I'm Joe Wisenthal. |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm Tracy Alloway. Tracy, we've talked a lot about various stresses and price increases |
| 1:07.2 | that we've seen throughout the economy. But one of the themes I guess I would say is, |
| 1:11.0 | and we've, we've joked about is we talk about a lot of stuff that's very much in the background. |
| 1:15.4 | Things that are sort of like disconnected or mediated by several steps from the end consumer. |
| 1:21.6 | Wait, Joe, can you explain that? We talk, we talk a lot, you know, like we recently talked about the |
| 1:26.4 | increased price of pallets, right? And that's gone up a lot. But most people don't experience |
| 1:32.4 | the increased price of wooded pallets or even the increased price of a shipping container |
| 1:37.6 | in their day-to-day life. Oh, I see. Well, I don't know. I guess the cost gets passed on like |
| 1:45.2 | eventually, right? But yes, right. We're not like purchasing containers once a month in the same |
| 1:52.5 | way that we are purchasing consumer goods and things like food and stuff like that. Yeah, exactly |
| 1:59.1 | right. That's all I mean, which is that a lot of these things are things you wouldn't necessarily |
| 2:03.3 | see yourself even lumber, which we've talked a lot about on the show. You might not necessarily see. |
| 2:08.9 | We've talked a lot about grain, which people see, but in many ways that manifest itself in the form |
| 2:13.8 | of higher meat prices or dairy prices for consumers. So a lot of these things, they seem to be like |
| 2:20.0 | sort of like background factors that eventually feed through. Yeah, but on the other hand, |
| 2:25.8 | since we're basically talking about inflation now, there are some price increases out there that |
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