Buying Sap

[Quabbin Hill Farms]

how do you determine how much to pay for Sap.

thanks

greg

[Kh7722]

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Attached is a picture of sugar content on side and price on top
2.2 would represent $2.20/lb based on a 50/50 split

[Sugarmaker]

I think there is a chart somewhere. I have seen it, just not this season. IIRC it might be in the 25 cents to 30 cents range depending on the sugar content. I always think of my sap being worth about a dollar a gallon to me as I make it into syrup and value added product. That is not connected with this chart I am referring to. I have seen this is past issues of the Maple Digest. Someone will find it for you. Maybe on line somewhere?
Good luck.
I have seen it also boiled on shares. They collect and bring to you for one half the finished syrup you make.
There you go I missed it by 2 minutes!:) Unfortunately I cant read it.
Regards,
Chris

[DaveB]

I usually pay based on the bulk price of syrup. My bulk buying price has been $2.20-$2.40/lb and using the sugar content I can figure out the syrup content of the sap. I split that 40/60 or 50/50 with seller. Most of my sellers just want some syrup and the rest cash. For example, if the sap is 2% and I have 200 gallons, I'll make about 4.6 gallons of syrup off of that which is worth $125 at $2.40/lb so I would pay the seller $62.50 for the sap. I typically give them a receipt for the sap when I pick it up and we square up at the end of the season.

[DrTimPerkins]

An Excel-based spreadsheet to calculate sap prices can be found at:

https://mapleresearch.org/pub/uvmsapbuying-xlsx/

[wiam]

An Excel-based spreadsheet to calculate sap prices can be found at:

https://mapleresearch.org/pub/uvmsapbuying-xlsx/

Is this similar to the one Cornell put out?

[DrTimPerkins]

It is based upon an early version of the Cornell sap-buying spreadsheet (and acknowledged as such), but has more options.

[wiam]

Thank you Tim. I’ve been using theirs. I will have to check this out.