Warm winters and ongoing high demand for maple syrup are coming at a cost to Canada's lucrative syrup industry.
According to the government, production dropped from a record high of 79 million litres in 2022 to just over 47 million litres this year.
Fortunately, a cold winter that year allowed record-breaking yields in the 2022 sugaring season, but it was only enough to satisfy the increased demand for the sticky stuff and not enough to replenish the reserve. Disaster and drama hit the reserve in 2012, when it was discovered that nearly 10,000 barrels of syrup had been drained in the now-notorious “More Canadians turning to streaming services despite price hikes: reportThe thieves, over the course of months, used trucks to transport barrels of syrup to a remote sugar shack, siphoning off the syrup and refilling them with water before returning them to the reserve.
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