2018 Bulk Price

[earl dakers]

I have a 2x6 inferno with a 30 ft stack. its airtight with a fan and am getting way too much draft. any suggestions?

[BAP]

he is alive, he is finally getting around to the HE injection.
talked to him yesterday, he sold 10 more gallons at 30 each. 7 dollars more a gallon than bulk price GO THAD GO! He said he doesn't care whose customers he steals as long as the money ends up in his pocket!

And that is exactly why it is “The Great Race to The Bottom.”

[BAP]

I have a 2x6 inferno with a 30 ft stack. its airtight with a fan and am getting way too much draft. any suggestions?

You should post this in the evaporator forum and make your on post with your question and not steal a thread.

[Atgreene]

Yesterday I took a ride to a local dealer to pick up a few supplies. They have a store selling maple syrup and bakery items as part of their maple supply business. Amongst all the syrup was your typical array of maple whoopee pies, maple candies, maple confections etc..... Almost all the confections and home baked items contained artificial maple flavoring. How in heck are we supposed to expand our industry, promote an all natural product and promote real maple syrup if we don't use it in our own products?! It's hypocritical at best, deceitful at the least.

We run a small farm store selling beef, pork, eggs and homemade items. We refuse to sell anything that isn't "real" anything. My wife makes and sells maple salsa, whoopee pies, candy, cream, cookies etc...etc.... All of which is made with real syrup, no artificial.

The buying public isn't going to trust nor believe us that real maple syrup is best if we're selling products made with fake syrup. We cut our own throats by not walking the walk.

[Scm]

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[Walling's Maple Syrup]

he is alive, he is finally getting around to the HE injection.
talked to him yesterday, he sold 10 more gallons at 30 each. 7 dollars more a gallon than bulk price GO THAD GO! He said he doesn't care whose customers he steals as long as the money ends up in his pocket!

I talked to him the other day. He told me about the helium injection. I think hes on to something. Or maybe he's on something?! Haha.
Stop trying to get everyone riled up with the $30/ gallon thing. You like to start trouble. It's in your nature

[ScottP]

It wasn't that many years ago that bulk syrup was selling for far less money than it is today. We sure liked seeing it in the upper $2 a pound range but i can remember when it was in the low $1 to under that. I remember when I got $1.30 a pound and was happy and now $2 - $2.10 a pound and people are complaining.

[maple flats]

Part of the problem there is that the cost of making syrup has climbed so much faster than the price. Likely when you got $1.30 a pound the cost to make it was less than half what it is today. To be relatively equal we'd need to get $2.60 today.
I still believe retailing far more of your own syrup is the answer, and don't do that by cutting the price you sell it for to be below everyone else, that will not help anyone except the consumer who pays less than the cost to make the syrup. That's a recipe for bankruptcy.

[markcasper]

It wasn't that many years ago that bulk syrup was selling for far less money than it is today. We sure liked seeing it in the upper $2 a pound range but i can remember when it was in the low $1 to under that. I remember when I got $1.30 a pound and was happy and now $2 - $2.10 a pound and people are complaining.

$1.35 / lb. for light amber in 1990, unfiltered. I recall 1991 (below dark amber, good or bad taste was .50 / lb., unfiltered, the following year that grade was .60 / lb. Nothing was ever filtered, they scraped the sediment out of the milkcans, wanted it all! Now its a .30/lb dockage. Figuring this in, the price we are getting is way worse now when taking inflation into account. Year 1996 had LA-$1.50, MA-$1.40, DA-1.30, below DA-$1.10 all per lb, all unfiltered prices. I have the slips to prove.

Figuring amber rich, MA current price at $1.70 / lb. unfiltered, that has only been an anemic .30/lb increase in 22 years.

[hand drill]

Part of the problem there is that the cost of making syrup has climbed so much faster than the price. Likely when you got $1.30 a pound the cost to make it was less than half what it is today. To be relatively equal we'd need to get $2.60 today.
I still believe retailing far more of your own syrup is the answer, and don't do that by cutting the price you sell it for to be below everyone else, that will not help anyone except the consumer who pays less than the cost to make the syrup. That's a recipe for bankruptcy.

you make syrup for the bulk price weather you like it or not. selling syrup is something else, you do not need to make syrup to retail it in jugs.