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Canada's maple syrup reserve almost empty as sap season at risk of becoming another casualty of the winter that wasn't

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/canadas-maple-syrup-reserve...

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weird.. I was at a sugar shack west of montreal a few weeks ago and he said this year was one of the longest and most productive in some time.

It is entirely possible that for that particular sugar shack they had an unusually long and productive season with it still being an unusually short and unproductive season in general.

The timing was off this year with the unusually mild winter, the sap started to run weeks earlier than usual. Its entirely possible that a small time sugar shack would be on the ball and tap their trees early where as a corporate producer might miss the peak.

Corporate entities, which followed the calendar instead of listening to the trees probably didn't do well this reason

Multiple people on Reddit said the same thing, that this year was one of the best for small time shops.

I think this article is part FOMO, part "oh no feel bad for us" by big companies.

> part "oh no feel bad for us" by big companies.

It's about the reserves, so it's literally just a small cartel consisting of a few big companies that limit the ability of smaller producers to compete, so yeah.

The warm weather threatened to cut things short, but then it got cold again and it looks like this season will be good after all.

Sustained warmer temps = longer sap season, makes sense !

This week in the news literally was reporting a record season. Don't know about ROC but QC has been freezing/thawing for weeks, which is great for the production.

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