Batch/Lot Coding and Labeling of Maple Syrup
How and why to code your products for traceability.
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Beginner Notebook 1st Edition
Manual with chapters on setting up sap collection systems, sugarhouse management, selling maple products, finances, and more.
Beginning or Expanding Maple Syrup Operations as a Profitable Business!
The primary use for this guide is to assist maple operations in developing a basic plan used to secure funding for start-up, expansion, and operating loans as well as a basic framework to begin considering the income and expenses incurred as the operation develops.
Beginning Sugarmaking: Trees, Taps, Tubing & Tanks
Slides from a presentation on sugarmaking for beginners.
Beyond the Boil: Creative ideas for selling maple syrup and value-added products
Making value-added products, educating consumers, and creative strategies to bring visitors to your sugarhouse are all ways to increase profits for sugarmakers.
Bigleaf Maple Syrup: Nontimber Forest Products For Small Woodland Owners
The sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) is most commonly used in maple sugaring, but all maples produce sap that can be converted to maple syrup. Though not as high in sugar content as the sugar maple, the sap of bigleaf maple trees (Acer macrophyllum) grown in the Pacific Northwest produces excellent syrup.
Bigleaf Maple Syrup: Nontimber Forest Products For Small Woodland Owners
The sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) is most commonly used in maple sugaring, but all maples produce sap that can be converted to maple syrup. Though not as high in sugar content as the sugar maple, the sap of bigleaf maple trees (Acer macrophyllum) grown in the Pacific Northwest produces excellent syrup.
Birch can help increase your maple operation profits
Birch syrup production uses the same equipment as maple syrup production, and the spring sapflow season begins just as the maple season is ending. Sugarmakers might want to consider adding birch production to their operations to generate additional revenue.
Birch syrup production to increase the economic sustainability of maple syrup production in the Northern Forest
A presentation on the potential value of adding birch syrup production to an existing maple operation.
Black maple (Acer nigrum) species page
Current inventory and climate change threat information for black maples.