Highlight: * Weather, global market boosts prices * Buyers turn to other producers regionally By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura Reuters March 7, 2011 KOMOTHAI, Kenya - In Kenya's coffee growing area of Komothai, record prices at auction have farmers dreaming of a better future and driving to improve their crop. Record high commodity prices have rattled finance ministeries in the West, but poor growers see things differently -- especially in Kenya where reforms now mean more profits trickle down to them. Coffee from the local co-operative society fetched $1,011 per 50-kg bag in January, a heady price for any coffee farmer around the world. "Now you can build a house, you can pay school fees, you can buy inputs. Before this, you couldn't do any of that," said Duncan Kimani, 52, pruning excess twigs off bushes with green berries that will be ready for harvest in April. "Now we can live like humans." Kenyan coffee prices have hit records this year -- ...