07-20-2025, 07:45 PM
It’s hard to know whether the USDA Food Production cuts will affect coffee farmers, but the newly proposed tariffs will according to people who would know, coffee growers:
Hawaii at first glance might seem the obvious beneficiary of tariffs on coffee. It is the only state in the country where the tropical goods grow, with the vast majority of java imbibed by Americans imported from South America and Vietnam. Higher priced foreign imports should, in theory, make the island state’s products comparatively more affordable. But growers say the opposite is true: rising prices across the board will hit consumers already struggling with inflation, curbing demand on everything from popular everyday roasts available at grocery stores to luxury Kona beans.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tar...00557.html
What the USDA Food grants will affect are the ulu growers who worked hard for years to get ulu into Hawaii school menus, so kids would have an additional source of real food in their diets, rather than ketchup as their vegetable. Not to mention ulu as a viable local food crop.
Hawaii at first glance might seem the obvious beneficiary of tariffs on coffee. It is the only state in the country where the tropical goods grow, with the vast majority of java imbibed by Americans imported from South America and Vietnam. Higher priced foreign imports should, in theory, make the island state’s products comparatively more affordable. But growers say the opposite is true: rising prices across the board will hit consumers already struggling with inflation, curbing demand on everything from popular everyday roasts available at grocery stores to luxury Kona beans.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tar...00557.html
What the USDA Food grants will affect are the ulu growers who worked hard for years to get ulu into Hawaii school menus, so kids would have an additional source of real food in their diets, rather than ketchup as their vegetable. Not to mention ulu as a viable local food crop.