yeah, I guess what it comes down to is that there are quality operations and those that aren’t… I guess size doesn’t matter!

Thanks for your visit,
-L

I’d tend to think that small farmed beans have a greater chance of being hand-picked, allowing for judgement-calls on bean ripeness (pick it, leave it for later, throw it away).

Of course, If the farm is (under)paying it’s labour by the pound, they’d be tossing every bit of cherry-sized whatever in their baskets to boost the weight.

So they’re probably right about automated farms beating out the sweat-shop style smaller farms for quality, but that probably doesn’t hold if the small-farm workers are motivated/fairly paid.