"One might say, 'You're a man and men don't cry." But yes, we do cry, because of desperation, sadness, pain. I've cried in my coffee fields. I've cried in my home. My wife and I cry together. "And we ask ourselves, 'What is happening? What have we done? Why do we have this [the coffee rust] situation?' "We have a very intimate relationship with the plants. I believe that's the most important thing. But when they are sick, it's the same as if someone in the family were sick. One becomes desperate." --Mr. Luis Antonio, Guatemalan Coffee Farmer.
Read this article (w/ video) on #CoffeeLeafRust affecting coffee farmers in southern Mexico and Central America: http://buff.ly/1ihCNn9 Elisabeth Malking reports for The New York Times. Leonardo Lombardini of World Coffee Research provides comments on the industry's efforts to conduct research to improve the quality and quantities of coffee.