The Manual on Coffee Leaf Rust

Aloha, Below is the CLR manual that World Coffee Research, CATIE, and USAID developed to support growers in South America. Jennifer “Vern” Long of WCR shared it this afternoon. It’s a lot of information, and most farmers will want a condensed version. But for those who are interested, it is the primary handbook that extension…

Coffee Rust Maui-do NOT import anything from Maui

TO: Members of the Hawai`i Coffee Industry FROM: Phyllis Shimabukuro-Geiser Chairperson, Board of Agriculture    SUBJECT: Coffee Leaf Rust Suspected on Maui Samples of a fungus tentatively identified as coffee leaf rust (CLR) were collected in managed and wild coffee on Maui. If confirmed, this will be the first detection in Hawai`i. Coffee leaf rust…

US Small Business Administration-Economic Injury Disaster Loans-Time Sensitive!

PRESS OFFICE   Release Date: May 4, 2020                Contact: [email protected], (202) 205-7036 Release Number: 20-38                     Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Blogs & Instagram SBA to Make Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to U.S. Agricultural Businesses Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic   WASHINGTON – U.S. Small Business Administration Administrator Jovita Carranza announced today that agricultural businesses…