Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by tredre3 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:59PM
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Quebec's maple syrup is indeed controlled by a cartel and the traditional supply/demand rules are meaningless, it's just market manipulation. Same with cow milk. But both BC and Ontario operate the same way, so I'm not sure why you're implying that quebec is the outlier here, seems like wherever you live might be...
Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by bregma on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:17PM
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I'm a maple syrup producer in Ontario and I can state unequivocally there is no marketing board or supply-side economics for maple products here. You make it, you sell it, people buy it.
Do maple trees even grow in BC? I'm not aware of any syrup industry of any size there.
Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by HankB99 on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @03:39PM
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> What a load of crap.
> We tapped our trees ... and had just about normal production levels.
That makes me wonder if the cartel is priming the pump for a price increase. Perhaps there will be another "great maple syrup heist" resulting in a shortage and skyrocketing price.
Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by jajko on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:44PM
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For a remote outsider - is the divide between quebec and rest of canada not just a language one?
Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by KineticLensman on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:36PM
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(Brit here) While working on a contract in Ottowa, I asked about Quebec which was just next door. My hosts explained that Canada and Quebec is like Britain would be if you put Scotland in the middle between Southern and Northern England.
Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low
by cmyr on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:03PM
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It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law)
We tapped our trees a couple of weeks early this year and had just about normal production levels. It just seems to have stopped a couple weeks earlier than usual because of a cold spell and an awful lot of cloud cover but there's still a couple weeks left before the peepers come out and we pull all the spiles.
Then again where I live we have no government regulation of the syrup industry. You can sell everything you can produce. Then again, I'm not in Quebec and Quebec is not the same as Canada.