I agree greed is bad, and you make some good points as did everyone.... I said the same thing about maple and big business in alot of words, but now that I think about it maple already is a big business. look at the size of the operations in Canada, Whats Lappierre at like 175K taps I am sure there facility is WAY bigger than crown. and its getting shipped to JAPAN in thousands of pound quantities. when you see the cheap stuff in the supermarket store shelf and I am talking real maple its big packers with syrup from canada mixed in there. I don't wanna see maple go by the way of factory farming either but as much as we are making there is still a demand for it and yes I am the little guy who just sells a 75 gallons a year. As a section of north america, canada included, there is more maple syrup being made than ever before and with great and improoving efficiency. You could say that maple factory farming is already here by the way we are now producing maple from just being boiled in a pot by wood to RO's steamaways, high effieciency arches, and vacuum pumps etc. etc. etc. its here and we are improving it everyday. in this day of maple syrup you can use a 2x6 and still get away with over 1000 taps as long as you have all the stuff I just mentioned above.
As much as I don't like big business either and I am for the local farmer. I guess I am changing my toon after reading some of the other posts and yes this guy is a businessman and maybe couldn't tap a tree to save his life but yes he's creating jobs and maybe he is opening the door to get maple more in the mainstream. Will it effect me NO probably not. Its the same thing when you go into a touristy shop somewhere how much is a quart of syrup anywhere from $20 to as much as $40+ for a quart. which is a s much as $160 a gallon. So to say that maple isn't a big business already well............
Originally Posted by bison1973
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