The poll is about "maple marketing". Don't see anything about dairy at all... Perhaps someone should start a thread in the off-topic section and the dairy industry so that conversation can stay out of the maple threads.

The biggest challenge to broadly marketing maple as a sweetener is competition with the corn industry. Without massive subsidies and a strong lobby, the maple industry is never going to compete in the large scale sweetener market.

Perhaps another option would be looking into forming a lobby group to push for subsidies so the price can be artificially lowered to be competitive with corn.

Or, this lobby group could work to stand up to the corn industry and work to eradicate all subsidies to that industry.