50 million pounds of syrup released!

[fred]

fred,

aside from de and jugs, do you see any shortages of looming?

Ken

i dont have many shortages. When things started to go backwards i was ordering more. I have most of what my customers in ohio and i need. Sounds like your dealers dropped the ball.


Manufacturing never stopped, but it might have gotten slow. Problem is 90% comes from over seas so there's the whole California b.s. Regulations that are stopping the trucks from coming into the state and hauling out containers. Im buying containers of glass from europe at an 8 month advance and plastic jugs 13-18 months out. Its very trying times but i pray the worst is almost behind us!!!!!

[TapTapTap]

i dont have many shortages. When things started to go backwards i was ordering more. I have most of what my customers in ohio and i need. Sounds like your dealers dropped the ball.


Manufacturing never stopped, but it might have gotten slow. Problem is 90% comes from over seas so there's the whole California b.s. Regulations that are stopping the trucks from coming into the state and hauling out containers. Im buying containers of glass from europe at an 8 month advance and plastic jugs 13-18 months out. Its very trying times but i pray the worst is almost behind us!!!!!

Our dealers are working hard for us here in Vermont!!

I guess our dealers grabbed that ball and took the matter into their own hands. We have one dealer here that bought a labeling machine and ordered 3 tractor trailer loads of plastic jugs that were available but only without labels. Apparently, a main supply chain problem is lack of labor to install labels which is very labor intensive. You see it sounds like figuring out solutions (rather than hoard buying and blaming regulations in CA) gets better results for us consumers.

I also understand that the dealers are limiting purchases of DE to prevent hoarding.


Ken

[Michael Greer]

Strategic supply or no, I'm raising my price this year. Glass has gone up, fuel, electricity, and food too. Firewood can't be far behind and labor is more difficult than ever. It's a luxury product, created by people who often work like slaves...it SHOULD be expensive!

[bill m]

I don't think we should ever be calling pure maple syrup a "luxury product". It is a premium product that is expensive to produce but should never be considered a "luxury.

[ecp]

Easy…do it like squirrels. Climb to the upper branches, nip the bark with your teeth, wait for the sap to flow and dry into sugar crystals by the sun, then lick it up. No plastic - no metal - no fire - no glass. Very “green.”

What other questions you got?

I must say I love the answer Dr. Perkins. It does create another question for me though. Were do I take a course on training an army of Squirrels? If we can training them have you worked out a way to train them to leave the tubing alone?

[DrTimPerkins]

Were do I take a course on training an army of Squirrels? If we can training them have you worked out a way to train them to leave the tubing alone?

Start with training young children and then work your way down to dogs, cats, then squirrels.