Brazil Coffee/Citrus/Cane

    Mostly dry weather in Sao Paulo. Scattered light showers in Minas Gerais.

Temperatures near to below normal.

Coffee/Citrus/Cane Forecast

    Dry weather Wednesday-Friday. Dry conditions or just a few light showers

Saturday. Episodes of scattered showers and thunderstorms on Sunday-Tuesday.

Light to moderate amounts with locally heavier expected. Temperatures below

normal through Thursday, near to below normal Friday, near to above normal

Saturday, variable Sunday-Tuesday.

WORLD COFFEE PROSPECTS

    Episodes of scattered showers and thunderstorms in Sao Paulo and Minas

Gerias Brazil during the next 7 days will initiate some early flowering of the

trees.

    Drier weather would benefit the maturing crop in southern Mexico and

Central America.

    The main crop harvest in Colombia gets underway in September. Conditions

are mostly favorable.

    Rains through Vietnam may cause delays to the early harvest of coffee

through the central highlands.