Six Aggies went on the Texas A&M Costa Rica Specialty Coffee Value Chain field trip. They experienced a faculty-led, firsthand look at the process of coffee development from bean to cup in Central America. The students’ experiences ran the gamut, from picking ripe, cherry red coffee fruit from the tree to plodding across a patio with a rake to dry beans, topped off with a private tasting session of locally grown products. Coopetarrazú, a coffee cooperative in Costa Rica, helped provide some of these fundamental experiences during the trip. Continue reading about this unique Aggie experience at tx.ag/AggiesInCostaRica! -- #AggiesAbroad #AggiesOfAGLS Texas A&M University | Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics | Texas A&M Animal Science | #TAMUfstc | Center for Coffee Research and Education