May 2025 The Independent Voice

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Message from President Petersen, Successful Legislative Season Winds Down,, US Daily Coffee Consumption Hits 20 Year High, Coffee Consumption of the Average American in a Single Image, Holualoa Coffee Mill, Congressional Coffee Caucus to Promote Coffee Industry, Study Suggests How Color “Should” be Used to Market Specialty Coffees,, Hawai’i Farmers and Ranchers Face $46 Million in Federal Funding Cuts, , KCFA Members “Did You Know?”, How a Forgotten Bean Could Save Coffee from Extinction, Status of Reimbursement Applications for CBB/CLR Treatment Subsidies, Ka’u Coffee Festival: May 25 – May 31, HCA Coffee Cupping Competition Deadline Extended, La Nina is Dead – What to Expect Now,

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April 2025 The Independent Voice

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Message from President Petersen, Hawaii Farmers Want Protections For Poi, Congressional Coffee Caucus, Hawai’i Ag Meets with DC Agencies, Surge in Green Coffee Thefts,
Could Processing Innovation Be a Solution?, Mr. Takashiba by Peter Young, Why Brands Are Investing In Gen Z, First Indoor Coffee Farming Franchise Co-op, CSF Leading More Defects Research With UC Davis, $1 Million Raised for Biochar Production on Coffee Farms

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“Mr. Takashiba” by Peter Young

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from Peter Young-© 2025 Ho‘okuleana LLC 03/15/2025 Mr Takashiba When we were kids, during the summers, we used to load the jeep and trailer on a Young Brothers’ barge and head to different neighbor islands to camp. After a while, we ended up repeatedly coming to Kona. On one of those Kona trips, sixty years…

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March 2025 The Independent Voice

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Message from President Petersen, KCFA 2025 Symposium, Kona Coffee Industry Hit By Funding Freeze and USDA Layoffs, Research Project on Effect of Physical Deficits in Green Coffee Beans, Bloomberg on Fertilizer Tariffs, The Controversy over Co-Fermentation of Coffee, Coffee-related Research and Management Update-Webinar, Study: Medium Roast Coffee contains more Caffeine than Dark Roast, Why Roasters Shouldn’t Buy Coffee Farms, and What Color is your Coffee? and more!

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Symposium 2025 Presentations

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Thanks to all who joined us at our KCFA Coffee Symposium 2025.  We’d like to give another big shoutout to our Diamond Sponsors:  The Hawaii Department of Ag’s Market Development Branch, the Hawaii Coffee Association, and SHAC. For your reference, here are the PDF versions of the presentations from our speakers. CLR and CBB Management…

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February 2025 The Independent Voice

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KCFA Coffee Symposium Feb. 25, 2025, Coffee Orchard Tasks, Warning: Coffee Sales Fraud, KCFA Position on a Sustainable Work Force & Immigration,
Workers’ Rights and Immigration, Coffee Related Webinar Series, Parasitic Wasps to Combat CBB, KCFA at Kokua Kailua, Fungicide Use and Your Health,
Grow Hawai’ian Festival, Study: Morning Coffee vs All-Day Coffee, Canoe Crops, How Sweet Coffee Tastes, CTAHR Workshop and Field Day Schedule
Are Dark Roast Profiles Unwelcome in Specialty Coffee?, Study: Coffee May Improve Cognitive Performance in Patients with High Incidence for Stroke

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