Re:Prices for dried coffee husks are outstripping those for ...
by kazinator on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @03:03PM
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> more income than just
If stated that way, it true of any nonzero income from these husks, for which it is still feasible to ship them.
What's questionable is whether it will continue to be valued above the bean.
It's certainly not more rare than the bean: each bean produces a husk.
It's artificially rare because the supply chain hasn't fully fired up.
Basically the situation is an impulse response blip at the boundary condition: sudden appearance of a demand without a supply mechanism.
It doesn't seem like it would take much for the coffee producers to save the husks, bag them, and ship them off the same way as beans. Once everyone is doing that, it's unlikely to remain valued above the bean.
Since fertilizer is necesasry, this stuff has to be worth more than whatever fertilizer has to be used to replace it. If not, then it is the fertilizer.
If stated that way, it true of any nonzero income from these husks, for which it is still feasible to ship them.
What's questionable is whether it will continue to be valued above the bean.
It's certainly not more rare than the bean: each bean produces a husk.
It's artificially rare because the supply chain hasn't fully fired up.
Basically the situation is an impulse response blip at the boundary condition: sudden appearance of a demand without a supply mechanism.
It doesn't seem like it would take much for the coffee producers to save the husks, bag them, and ship them off the same way as beans. Once everyone is doing that, it's unlikely to remain valued above the bean.
Since fertilizer is necesasry, this stuff has to be worth more than whatever fertilizer has to be used to replace it. If not, then it is the fertilizer.