Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?
by AdrianB1 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:19PM
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OK, so what is the problem, is maple syrup an essential product that is at risk if farmers convert the land for other agricultural use? I am an European that never consumed maple syrup, so I am trying to understand what is this about.
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Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?
by 908B64B197 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:37PM
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> is maple syrup an essential product
No.
> that is at risk if farmers convert the land for other agricultural use?
Yes. You basically have to let very productive land untouched for 40+ years before you can have a single harvest. At current prices it's not worth it. Once a maple grove is gone, it's gone forever.
Current pricing makes it a viable proposition for farmers to keep their groves.
Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter?
by AdrianB1 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:36PM
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That is the whole point: if maple syrup is not an essential product and some farmers decide to change the use of their land to something else, what is the problem you cannot produce it anymore in the next 40 years? You just give up to some of the syrup, it's not like if supply will reduce and prices will increase you will have to produce more. You just move on and don't do it.