{"id":216,"date":"2011-01-19T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T09:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"dev.cafeimports.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/thar_aint_coffee_in_them_hills\/"},"modified":"2018-09-20T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:40:38","slug":"thar_aint_coffee_in_them_hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/thar_aint_coffee_in_them_hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin Report: Kenya 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"width: 371px; height: 253px;\" src=\"dev.cafeimports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0597.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0597.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazing!\u00a0 Another year where the Kenyan coffee situation looks to be worse than the previous record bad\u00a0year.\u00a0 The Millers and Marketers association just announced\u00a0that due to a sharp revision down in supply, auctions would only be held every two weeks.\u00a0 This is the first time that\u00a0I&#8217;ve heard that auctions would not be a weekly event.\u00a0 The short term cause of this tightening supply is continued leaf rust and an extension of\u00a0the general drought that is affecting East African across the board.\u00a0 The long term tightness continues to be land being converted to housing on the highland plains just north of Nairobi taking coffee land out of production and a general aging of the coffee farmers with the younger generation heading off to the bright lights of the city.\u00a0 With such tight supply, it is no surprise that prices are and will\u00a0continue to be high.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that cup quality is looking to be good to exceptional, and we are looking forward to cupping and buying one of our favorite origins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jason<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"width: 377px; height: 244px;\" src=\"dev.cafeimports.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0644.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0644.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing!\u00a0 Another year where the Kenyan coffee situation looks to be worse than the previous record bad\u00a0year.\u00a0 The Millers and Marketers association just announced\u00a0that due to a sharp revision down in supply, auctions would only be held every two weeks.\u00a0 This is the first time that\u00a0I&#8217;ve heard that auctions would not be a weekly event.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[68,17,18,50,69,67],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenya","tag-auction-lots","tag-cafe-imports","tag-coffee","tag-green-coffee","tag-importing","tag-kenya"],"site_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.cafeimports.com\/north-america\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}