You may be holding a cup of it now as you read this. Warm and comforting, coffee is the fuel for many facing an early morning or a much-needed pick me up. In the United States, coffee is the most ...

An additional $300,000 will soon be made available to coffee farmers to battle coffee leaf rust on the Big Island. “No County General Funds will be involved in this program,” Sako said. Instead, the ...

Coffee leaf rust has long been the enemy of coffee growers, but a snail from Southeast Asia may give them hope. By Maria Cramer It’s not exactly what you want to think about when you’re sipping your ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – A recent study suggests coffee ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said the devastating fungus, coffee leaf rust, has been found on all major islands in the state. In the last month, the state collected ...

Coffee leaf rust has now been found on all major Hawaiian islands after the pathogen was detected on Molokai and Kauai, the state Department of Agriculture confirmed Tuesday. On June 14, department ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With looming threats of coffee leaf rust to farmers’ yields, Purdue University mycologist Catherine Aime is working to protect this staple of daily lives and the economies of ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - In an alarming discovery, agriculture officials have confirmed the presence of coffee leaf rust from samples collected on Maui and detected “suspect” samples in Hilo ...

Since the discovery of coffee leaf rust was confirmed on Hawaii Island in October, the coffee community — from individual farmers to the state’s Department of Agriculture — has been working to find ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 26, 2021) Coffee leaf rust, caused by a fungus that can devastate fields of coffee plants, and the coffee industry of entire countries, was recently detected on the Hawaiian ...

(WJW) – A recent study suggests coffee prices will soon rise due to socioeconomic effects from the pandemic and a possible coffee leaf rust epidemic. The Rutgers University-led study was published in ...