Maple Science
Maple education for Junior High School Audience
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Maple education for Junior High School Audience
Annual data on US maple production.
An Excel spreadsheet that can be used to determine profitability and project the impact of altering management practices.
A one-page beginners guide to sugaring
Conversion and nutrition information for maple syrup.
The final rules for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) have been issued, after several years of drafts and revisions, and concern about what the new regulations would mean for maple producers. Based on a read of the rules, and a discussion with Jenny Scott, Senior Advisor at the Office of Food Safety of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, for most sugarmakers the impact will be minimal.
Consistent, accurate measurement of maple syrup density is a challenge for many maple syrup producers. In maple sap and maple syrup, Brix may be determined using either density (hydrometer or hydrotherm) or refractometry (optical or digital refractometer). This is a guide to determining density of maple syrup.
Why it matters to have syrup free of particulates, and how to filter it to do so.
The importance of managing and measuring syrup color.
How to manage and measure the density of maple syrup and why it matters.