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“Ground coffee” with soil perks in Brazil

Science Societies
Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018

Coffee crop in Brazil — Brazil’s favorable climate helps coffee beans ripen and be ready for picking during a concentrated period of weeks.
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Coffee is one of Brazil’s biggest crops. Brazil’s favorable climate helps coffee beans ripen and be ready for picking during a concentrated period of weeks. That makes mechanical harvesting an economically reasonable choice.

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The article was written collectively by the American Society of Agronomy, the Soil Science Society of America and the Crop Science Society of America. Those societies represent more than 12,000 individual members around the world. The scientists’ memberships build collaborating partnerships in the agronomy, crops, and soils-science fields for the advancement of knowledge. Visit www.soils.org or www.agronomy.org or www.crops.org for more information.