coffee harvest season

[Sunnyfield]

Hey, anybody knows when it is coffee harvesting season? And what is a typical harvesting-to-retailer leadtime for new crop (i.e. green beans)?

[Walter]

In which country?

Anyhow, here's a rough overview: http://www.hollandcoffee.com/schedule.htm

[bruceb]

Thanks Walter! That whole site is very useful.

BTW, can someone explain what "fly crop" means? I've tried to find some reference, but wasn't successful. Thanks.

[ivdp]

Fly crop is not the main crop.
Depending on countries some coffee trees in some region produce 2 crops per year.
A main crop and an intermediary crop, or a fly crop.
The fly crop is considerably smaller than the main crop.

Ivo

[Sunnyfield]

Walter wrote:

In which country?

Enlighten me!

Anyhow, here's a rough overview: http://www.hollandcoffee.com/schedule.htm

Wow, that is very very interesting, thanks!

ivdp wrote:

Fly crop is not the main crop.

Definitely learning a lot of new things today, great!
Do you know what is the main quality difference?

[Steve]

Normally large country's that have different harvesting times. Colombia is the most obvious one that springs to mind that has a large fly. Others it can be explained as being slow picking their harvest

[CakeBoy]

Useful chart, thanks Walter