sap prices this year?

[meyer8000]

Hey Everyone

Does anyone know if the sap prices for the 2010 season have come out yet. I know it usually is printed in the maple digest but I haven't seen one yet this year, even though I am a member and I am supposed to recieve a copy. I have several people who are offering to sell me sap, but want to know a price, but don't know what to tell them because I want to be fair and stick with the standard pricing system. Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks
Matt
Sugar Shack Maple
Morris, NY 13808
8500 taps and gaining

[themapleman54]

The prices are in the new digest, just got mine,Bob

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

Meyer,
Yes the new digest is out with the "new" prices. They are exactly the same as last year.

[rh94]

what is the price of sap?

[maple flats]

It all depends on the sugar %. The posted prices in the Digest are the prtices paid "by some producers" and are only a rough guide. For example 2%=$.325/gal, 2.5%=$.45/gal and 3%=$.575/gal. The chart starts at 1% up to 5.5% by .1% incriments. To show it all here one would likely need permission. Why not google "Maple Syrup Digest" and order it. Not very costly, only $6/yr US, 8/yr US dollar, Canadian orders.. Besides, they have articles of interest to producers. By the way, the sugarhouse on the current cover was owned by a friend of mine. I heard he sold the farm and is now a guide in the Adirondaks. I don't know if it will be operating in the future under new ownership.

[maple flats]

I forgot, it is published 4x/yr, Feb, June, Oct and Dec.

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Contact your association president if you are not getting copies of it so they can get it corrected.

[michiganfarmer]

There is so many people aruound here who are very protective of their maples for saw logs. Im offering 55 cents per gallon for minimum 2% sap to get some of these people to tap their trees and sell me sap. I dont have enough trees of my own to make the volume of syrup I want.

[Clan Delaney]

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FwSEiH_AdHQ/S3g0gOnycwI/AAAAAAAACXc/WKlaWFcR1Ro/s640/2010%20Sap%20Prices.jpg

[madmantr]

Being new to this I'm ignorant.What quantity are you talking about would i be able to but 200 gals or is it only available in large quantity?
thanks
I forgot, it is published 4x/yr, Feb, June, Oct and Dec.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

madmantr,
If you buy sap, you work out a deal with someone interested in selling sap. I purchase from several sources. I purchase all the sap from some of them and only what the others cannot boil themselves. I pay the prices that were listed in the maple syrup digest for fresh sap delivered to my sugar house. Sometimes someone comes with 50 gallons and sometimes with 1200 gallons. I keep a running tabulation of sap delivered and pay at the end of season. If someone wants cash at time of delivery, I pay slightly less. Since maple is my main source of revenue, my checking account can be getting kind of thin at this time of year.

[seclark]

Matt, where in Morris are you, I'm in south new berlin about 2 miles from Talbot's maple. Stan

[Homestead Maple]

Chart looks real nice.

[KenWP]

There is two threads of this going. The other thread has a copy from our resident computer genuis of the prices in it. Check it out.

[Brian Ryther]

Seclark,

Matt is on Pegg Road between Morris and New Lisbon. I am in New Lisbon on Myers Mills Road. You should do the tour of the Valley. Matt has a great operation and I am just up the road.

[Clan Delaney]

There is two threads of this going. The other thread has a copy from our resident computer genuis of the prices in it. Check it out.

I just merged the two threads. The chart with this year's prices is on the previous page.