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1cture at all. Pre-positioned botanical-origin bio-inputs at the washing station change that \u2014 and clear four sustainability disclosures at the same time.",category:"POLICY & COMPLIANCE"},{slug:"coffee-yield-forecast-13-years-ground-truth",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why coffee yield forecasts need 13 years of ground truth.",excerpt:"A satellite picture of a coffee farm shows canopy stress; it does not show yield. The forecast comes from correlating those stress signals against thirteen years of recorded cherry yields from the same farms \u2014 a calibration that gets sharper every harvest.",category:"TECHNOLOGY"},{slug:"coffee-post-rain-harvest-window",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why coffee waits a week after the last rain to harvest.",excerpt:"The week after the last rain is when the coffee tree pulls water and dissolved nutrients up from the saturated soil and into the cherries, where they translocate into sugar. Picking before the dry week is up catches the cherry mid-cycle.",category:"COFFEE RESEARCH"},{slug:"coffee-tera-preta-amazonian-soil",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why coffee borrows from Amazonian soil science.",excerpt:"Indigenous Amazonian agriculture produced soils \u2014 Tera Preta \u2014 that have remained anomalously fertile for over a thousand years. GAP77 adapts that recipe into Tera Preta 2.0, the soil amendment that goes into every coffee transplant pit.",category:"COFFEE RESEARCH"},{slug:"most-coffee-soils-biologically-dead",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why most coffee soils are biologically dead.",excerpt:"Across thirteen years of soil sampling on coffee farms in Kenya and Rwanda, the most consistent finding has been that the soils are biologically dead \u2014 devoid of the bacteria, fungi, worms and microbes that make nutrients available to a coffee tree.",category:"COFFEE RESEARCH"},{slug:"gap77-banana-not-eucalyptus",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why GAP77 mulches with banana leaves, not eucalyptus.",excerpt:"Mulching is essential on a coffee farm. The cheapest mulch material in East Africa is eucalyptus leaves from the forest \u2014 and it is also the worst, because eucalyptus debris acidifies the soil. GAP77 mulches with banana leaves from intercropped plants instead.",category:"COFFEE RESEARCH"},{slug:"origin-enviro-plus-report",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"What\u2019s actually in an Origin Enviro+ Report.",excerpt:"The Origin Enviro+ Report is the per-consignment compliance pack a coffee buyer receives from the washing station \u2014 bundling EUDR Due Diligence Statement evidence, SBTi FLAG-validated activity data and CSRD-relevant practice records into a single signed document.",category:"POLICY & COMPLIANCE"},{slug:"automating-coffee-farm-scouting",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"What it takes to scout 250,000 coffee farms, every fortnight.",excerpt:"Visiting every farm in a coffee washing station catchment every two weeks \u2014 and adding a yearly flowering pass on top \u2014 only works at scale because the orchestration is automated. The platform clusters, dispatches, captures and aggregates without paper or end-of-day reconciliation.",category:"TECHNOLOGY"},{slug:"flowering-scout-coffee-yield-forecast",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"How a flowering scout forecasts a coffee harvest six months early.",excerpt:"At flowering, six months before the first cherry is picked, a coffee operation can already estimate the size of the upcoming harvest. The signal is the number of flowers per branch \u2014 sampled across a designed selection of farms, not collected at random.",category:"FARMING PRACTICES"},{slug:"farm-level-coffee-records-compliance",date:"25 APRIL 2026",isoDate:"2026-04-25",title:"Why coffee compliance asks for farm-level records.",excerpt:"EUDR Due Diligence Statements, SBTi FLAG submissions and CSRD disclosures all rest on coffee data that has to defend itself if questioned. The defensible unit is not a co-op average or a regi

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