HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said the devastating fungus, coffee leaf rust, has been found on all major islands in the state. In the last month, the state collected ...

(WJW) – A recent study suggests coffee prices will soon rise due to socioeconomic effects from the pandemic and a possible coffee leaf rust epidemic. The Rutgers University-led study was published in ...

Juan Robleto, 46, works at the "Santa Francisca" farm where coffee rust led to the cutting and burning of coffee trees and where they are now growing other varieties of coffee and cocoa, as a result ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Starting in the 2011-12 growing season, a powdery orange fungus called coffee leaf rust spread like wildfire throughout Latin America and Central America, damaging crops on 70% ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will allow Hawaii coffee growers to use a fungicide to fight coffee leaf rust, a devastating pathogen found on Maui, Lanai, Hawaii island and Oahu. The state ...

The coffee leaf rust, “one of the most devastating pests of coffee plants,” has been tentatively identified on plant samples collected on Maui from managed and wild coffee in Haiku, the state ...

An additional $300,000 will soon be made available to coffee farmers to battle coffee leaf rust on the Big Island. “No County General Funds will be involved in this program,” Sako said. Instead, the ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - In an alarming discovery, agriculture officials have confirmed the presence of coffee leaf rust from samples collected on Maui and detected “suspect” samples in Hilo ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – A recent study suggests coffee ...