The Economic Journey of Your Morning Coffee
If you’re like 49% of Americans, you drink coffee every day. 几, 如果有任何, take a moment during their morning coffee ritual to contemplate or marvel at the complex journey that brought their coffee from farm to their kitchen table.1
咖啡是美国最受欢迎的饮料之一.S.这是美国最大的食品进口. It wields an economic impact that starts with farmers from Brazil to Vietnam and ends with the barista at your local coffeehouse, involving hundreds of truckers, 发货人, 烤肉炉, and retail workers in between.²
Like many agricultural enterprises, coffee is grown on large plantations and small farms alike. Harvests are purchased by coffee mills located proximate to coffee growing regions, either directly from the plantation and farm cooperative or via a trader who buys from the farmer in the hopes of re-selling at a higher price.
The mills take these “cherries”—so-called because the beans are red—and bring them through a milling process that dries them and removes their husks to reveal the inner green bean.
The green beans are brought into the U.S. by importers and sold to 烤肉炉 and major coffee brands whose roasting facilities are typically located in coastal cities with seaports that can receive the coffee shipments.
一次烤, coffee will be ground (or left as whole beans), 打包, and shipped to distribution centers around the country for eventual delivery to retail outlets.
Coffee’s journey to your table may travel a different path, given the rise of specialty 烤肉炉 and a growing connection between coffee retailers and farmers that removes many of these middlemen.
1. MedicalNewsToday.com, 2023
2. 美国农业部.政府,2023
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