$32.99 per qt

[Mac]

I was in Shaws Supermarket in North Conway, NH today, $32.99 per quart.. for Grade A Dark Amber.... Product of Canada. Made me wonder how much of it they move at that price.

[Rhino]

was fishing in canada a few weeks ago, and at the border crossing at international falls, there was a store selling canadian syrup for $40.00 a quart. with this economy i would think it would sit there a long time.

[acers]

wow that is insane:o

[Dave Y]

They are not crazy for asking that much! But you may be if you paid that price!

[dschultz]

At that price don't sound like a surplus of syrup

[KenWP]

I thought 22 bucks a quart was bad in the one store here. The price hasn't really dropped much around here. Few places have 540ml for $6.99 but most is $7.99 still and upwards. They work on the theory that it keeps to next year around here.

[ennismaple]

Tourist traps will always charge a lot more than what we retail it for. The going rate around here is $18 to $20 / L (quart).

[maplecrest]

was in a store the other day, 72 a gallon the highest i have ever seen

[red maples]

The meat house in exeter nh selling it 2 different farms 26 and 27 per quart. NH pure maple syrup

[220 maple]

Last week in Harrisonburg, Va. I nearly passed out when I seen a gallon of Highland County, Virginia maple syrup that is made by Jay Eagle of Eagle's Sugar Camp of Doe Hill, Va. retail Price 76 something, my eyes lost focus and I didn't get the cent amount!!!!!!! I know Jay very well, he does not sell it retail at the camp for that, I believe he is a couple dollars over 50 there.
I dearly hate to sell syrup to store owners who jack it up. then it sets there for a long time.

Mark 220 Maple

[KenWP]

If I could get $76 bucks a gallon for syrup I would make syrup full time. makes me wonder if they actually sell some of the stuff.

[red maples]

Thats the stuff that tourists buy!! because even they are just passing through and go "oh yeah I gotts a pick up some VT, NH, ME, PA, NY whereever else pure maple syrup because its the best I have ever had". they might pay for and store folks know it even if it sits there until the next sugaring season! sooner or later someone will buy it.

I did see some stuff in market basket the other day that $17 a qt. I think it was from NY or maybe quebec I don't remember. cheapest I ever seen it though. might pick one up to if its any good. I really like support the local syrup guys around me if I run out of my own stuff but wow, some times it just too pricey for my pockets

[oldemaple]

I am a vendor at the Exeter, NH farmer's market. This afternoon I had a woman take a look at the price on my gallon jugs ($55) and exclaim "Oh my God. Oh my God." I was on the defensive right away, as I thought she was going to complain about the cost. I was shocked when she told me that she had just paid $85 for a gallon at Calef's Country Store in Barrington, NH. Somebody's really bilking the public.

[dschultz]

What is a quart of syrup going for in NH?
Here in WI it's going $12 to $20 a quart

[briduhunt]

oldemaple, I read that a customer just bought a gal of syrup for $85 and you stated that it was bilking. No disrespect buy this very attitude that most all of us have that this seller was bilking the customers, and it is why we still sell our syrup for very close to the same price year after year. Remember our cost are going up and yet we still keep to the lower price.
My thoughts are that this guy selling a gal at $85 is actually helping us, if we just see it for what it is. The lady did state that she purchased the syrup so it was not priced to high for her and that market. When she bought the syrup she thought she got a deal and she was happy to buy the syrup.

That being said we have top also realize that our product is a luxary product and it is not needed to feed a family. The people buying our syrup do pay way more for our syrup than pancake syrup, and that is what the majority of the country uses. You see the high priced cars and SUV's all day long these are the very same people we sell to as they could have gone out and bought a KIA or another small car and gotted a lot better miliage and lower car payments but they chose to purchase the SUV anyway.

We as producers need to remember the SUV drivers in this world that are willing to pay the higher price for what they want, so why not put our product up on the same pedisitial and price our syrup to make a profit.

Just my thoughts. I hope I did not insult anyone as it is not my intentions but rather than to make us all think more of our products as the SUV's in the farming industury.

[KenWP]

No worse then those tiny bottles they sell for $2.95 or such that hold 40ml. That works out to $335 bucks a gallon. And people buy a handfull of them around here to take home to people.
I can get syrup here for 54 bucks a gallon in a lot of places right now and a bit cheaper in a couple of places.

[TapME]

go and check L L Bean and see what they get for the product. My inside sources say they sell a lot of it too. For what it's worth.

[oldemaple]

Dschultz, I am getting $18 a quart for my syrup.

[red maples]

Hey I drive and SUV, '03 tahoe I wanted a pick-up but the wife said no...:( anyway oldmaples do you go to the farmers market alot I go once in a while. I'm in east knigston If your there next week I'll stop by... $55 is a good price. like I said before I like to support the local guys but sometimes their prices are too $40+ per 1/2 Gallon. sorry not paying that, even if I drive an suv:D

[oldemaple]

Brian, may I ask how much you're charging for a gallon of syrup? I guess that I'm a Kia owner and not a Lexus owner. I just believe in asking a fair price for my syrup, not seeing how much I can take from the unsuspecting customer. The woman that paid $85 for that syrup now has a very bad taste in her mouth for maple producers. She believes that she was ripped off. I can't argue with her. Just my 2 cents.

[oldemaple]

Brad,
I'm a vendor at the Exeter market and I'm there every Thursday. There are two of us maple producers there and I'm the one closest to the main street. Hope to see you there.

[red maples]

excellent I will be there on thursday as long as its not raining right!!! . I just looked on cabela's web site and they selling it for $35 for a half gallon, LL bean didn't have it on their web site. but if they did I am sure it would expensive. as for the woman that got ripped off her fault for not shopping around. and stores jack up the price and that s how it goes! is it fair? no! but thats what they do if they can get they will. The good thing is one person's word of mouth is great you may get some business out of that woman because she may tell a friend or 2 or more that there is maple syrup for $55 a gallon in exeter and they will coming looking!!! So like brian said sometimes its good that places will charge that. its like going to 1 store that sell milk for $4 a gallon and another store sells it for $2.75, where are you gonna shop for milk??? right

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Let this $ 1000 FDA registration bill get passed and see what syrup sells for then. It will drive a lot of the small producers out and then the price will go so high until the demand for it falls so bad that it will kill the market.

Shouldn't be not complaining by anyone that voted for this current administration, they had socialism and communistic tactics written all over them and this is the first 6 months. Aren't you excited what the next 42 months will hold.

[rschoo]

That's the first I've heard of the registration bill. I just googled and found that they have reduced the fee to $500

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124526262358724091.html

It's seems that the job of the U.S. government is to regulate small businesses out of existence to clear the way for corporate profits.

I sell my 12oz glass bottles for $6.00, my wife sells them for $7.00. I sell quarts for $18.00 but I don't like to sell quarts. I only make about 10 - 13 gallons a year and go through about 5 or 6 myself.

The amish around here make syrup and they have a couple of country stores. 3 years ago they were selling 1 gal for $25.00. Compete with that!

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

We are regulated by the dept of Ag and here is the verbatim wording out of the above posted link:

"To help fund the work, the bill would require some 378,000 food facilities, including 223,000 overseas, to pay an annual registration fee of $500. The legislation exempts farms that raise meat and poultry and other facilities regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

Seems we are exempt.

[bobsklarz]

Went to a Farmer's Market in Medina, Ohio and one in Lodi, Oh. Prices at both were $8.oo a pint and $14.oo a Qt. This was just yesterday, 7/18.:)

[green4310]

Let this $ 1000 FDA registration bill get passed and see what syrup sells for then. It will drive a lot of the small producers out and then the price will go so high until the demand for it falls so bad that it will kill the market.

Shouldn't be not complaining by anyone that voted for this current administration, they had socialism and communistic tactics written all over them and this is the first 6 months. Aren't you excited what the next 42 months will hold.

Double negative to begin a sentence, IMPRESSIVE. da

P R E S I D E N T O...BA...MAAAAA in charge. DEAL WITH IT.

[3rdgen.maple]

Wow can't seem to get a good read on the last post was that a negative or a positive one?

[TapME]

Didn't I read somewhere on here that this was not going to happen in these post. I don't need his crap on here.

Hey green my carbon footprint is 256Lbs per person per month. What,s your?

[rschoo]

Wow, what a thread! From price per quart to Ag bills to carbon footprints! What's next? The origin of the unicorn in Greek mythology?

[KenWP]

Wrote a paper on that once also.
I had sold a lady a small bottle of my world famous dark syrup and she phoned today looking for a gallon of the stuff. I have to come up with a price now. I only charged her $5 for the 500ml bottle as I wasn't sure she would like it like I do. Maybe its not as bad as I figured it was.

[red maples]

WOW this thread is really out there. Just got back from lake winnisquam in NH. Tourist shops and charging $30/qt and $90/gal for plastic jugs/ grade A dark!!

all from local sugarhouses.:o

[mountainvan]

A 250 ml bottle in Barbados goes for $18 US, $36 barbadon. I brought my own for me and some as a gift for the owner of the house. He was from Canada and had uncles who made syrup. Pretty cool talking maple while drinking rum on a deck overlooking the ocean.

[Homestead Maple]

Some places around here are very high on their prices from what I've seen. I thought the prices might go down some from last year because there was more syrup made this past season. The tourists numbers are down and a few syrup sellers have told me their sales are down some. Bulk prices are down quite a lot from last year. Prices for syrup are high but are people selling much syrup?