21.   Last year this country, a legendary coffee producer, exported more soybeans than coffee.

22.   No sooner had coffee roasters decided to run with smaller inventories than Colombia, the second-biggest coffee producer, was hit with heavy rains and a strike.

23.   The emergence of Vietnam as a major coffee producer contributes to the oversupply.

24.   The price run was fueled in part by concern over cold weather forecast this week for Brazil, the top coffee producer.

25.   Traders worry that a drought in Brazil, the biggest coffee producer, will further damage its crop at a time when season demand rises.

26.   While coffee producers are working, the transportation of beans has been hurt by bus drivers and other transportation workers who staged demonstrations in sympathy with the strikers.

27.   Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world.

28.   But now, with coffee prices sharply higher and holding steady, coffee producers see a brighter future.

29.   Coffee producers said Monday they will meet soon to discuss an oversupply that pushed prices to the lowest levels in two and a half years.