October 2025 News & AMA | #PodSaveChocolate Ep 151
Episode 151 of #PodSaveChocolate features chocolate news that’s fit to eat and AMA/Ask me Anything (about chocolate and cocoa) for October 2025.
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Episode 151 Overview
In this episode: News that’s fit to eat!
People participating live can ask AMA questions in the chat at any point during the episode.
News topics lined up to be covered include:
The Ongoing Saga of the Cost of Cocoa
| MARKETS |
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| ICCO Pricing Stats |
| Futures Overview / Futures Prices – Barchart.com |
| Graph – Trading Economics |
| Breaking: Côte d'Ivoire plans to increase its farmgate cocoa price for farmers by 39% to a record 2,500 CFA francs ($4.50) per kg for the main 2025/26 crop harvest (through March 26). |
| OTHER NEWS | the TL;DR |
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| News | Cocoa world braces for another delay in the EUDR |
| News | EC faces backlash over EUDR IT costs (which have never been disclosed) |
| News | World Cocoa Foundation announces GHG (greenhouse gases accounting standards methodology |
| Awards | Cacao of Excellence 2025 Top 50 announced. Taking a look at how evolving “standards” makes year-over-year comparisons and generating aggregate statistics next to impossible – and how AI tools make my life easier |
| Dates | CHOCOA 2026: Trade Fair (18–20 Feb); Festival (21–22 Feb) |
Scouring Social Media (Reddit, anyway)
for “Hot” Topics
Ways to use Reddit to learn stuff and not get caught up in the maelstrom.
Questions?
If you have questions or want to comment, you can do so during the episode or, if you are a ChocolateLife member, you can add them in the Comments below at any time.
Future Episodes
Midwest Craft Chocolate Festival Preview with founder Dustin Cornett
The Changing Landscape of Cacao Sourcing
Interview and Tasting with Tandy Peterson of Embers Chocolate.
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