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Cascara is produced from coffee that isn't sprayed.

• hinkley 8y ago
  Aha. There’s your price premium. There’s a market for pesticide free cherries but not the same market for pesticide free beans. So you divide your crop into two piles and one sells into a channel where your extra labor isn’t a differentiator. Were we quoted the price for organic coffee beans or conventional?
  • phlo 8y ago
    Conventional. For comparison, fair trade ranges from $1.40 to $1.90 (organic on the higher end). Direct trade starts at $2 or so at the low end, averages around $3.50 or so and can approach double digits for top-end specialty coffee. Afaik the quality of the cascara is even more sensible to farming and processing conditions that the bean, so I'd expect a large part of the cascara production to come from higher-end farms anyway.
    • lostlogin 8y ago
      What are the units those prices are for? The green beans I buy are in the range of $7-14US per Kg.
      • phlo 8y ago
        USD per lb of green beans in bulk. According to one finva I visited at some point. On some quick research, apparently on the extreme high end, lots can go for as high as $600 per lb. https://dailycoffeenews.com/2017/07/26/record-coffee-earns-601-per-pound-at-best-of-panama-auction/ https://dailycoffeenews.com/2017/07/26/record-coffee-earns-6...