Starbucks Coffee Company expanded its commitment to supporting the specialty coffee industry by addressing one of the most significant threats to coffee farmers. Beginning September 29, Starbucks will ...

A Lincoln-based coffee roaster is fighting “roya,” or coffee rust disease, by donating new trees to growers. San Francisco Bay Coffee, owned by the Rogers Family Company in Lincoln, has donated more ...

Starbucks is giving its customers a stake in the fight against coffee rust. The company said Monday that for every bag of coffee purchased at participating U.S. stores, it will pay for providing a new ...

Instead of giving away free coffee, Starbucks is doing something like never before for National Coffee Day on Sept. 29. It's giving away a free coffee tree to a coffee farmer in need for every cup of ...

If you are unfamiliar with coffee rust, some rather unappealing images may come to mind. And indeed, coffee rust is a formidable problem for coffee lovers and growers everywhere. Coffee rust, or ...

Meet the world's most important coffee disease that you've never heard of - rust fungus, a.k.a. "la roya." Its spores, which can devastate entire coffee farms, forced Sri Lanka to uproot all its ...

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 areas throughout the ...