By Isis Almeida Bloomberg News August 29, 2012 The arabica coffee harvest in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer, will end in the second half of September as dry weather favors pickings, according to Cepea, a University of Sao Paulo research group. Brazil is harvesting its 2012-13 crop and production will be a record 50.4 million bags of 60 kilograms (132 pounds), the government estimates. While the robusta crop has been completed, rains in June delayed pickings of the arabica variety. Coffee- growing areas will get mostly dry weather in the first days of September, Sao Paulo-based weather forecaster Somar Meteorologia said in a report e-mailed yesterday. “The harvesting of the 2012-13 arabica crop is advancing smoothly in main producing regions in Brazil,” Margarete Boteon, an analyst at Cepea, said yesterday. “The dry weather since mid-July has been favoring field activities.” About 80 percent of the crop has already been picked in Cerrado Mineiro, an area of...