Prices and Buying Maple Syrup
by Tig Tillinghast
For companies using a great deal of maple syrup, predicting maple syrup pricing can be critical to ensure a consistent supply. Below are two PDF documents with 1- a maple syrup price check study done to compare real-world retail prices with USDA and other data and 2- a piece on methods for predicting maple syrup price dynamics in the market, both on the supply and demand sides.
Buying Maple Syrup, Price Predicting
If time allows, both will be updated prior to the next season. That will provide interesting longitudinal price data.
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[...] and a poor harvest in 2008 pushed prices up to $65 per gallon in 2009 (according to USDA figures; a maple-syrup industry blog, and how awesome is that, did its own survey and found retail prices averaging $95 a gallon). [...]
[...] and a poor harvest in 2008 pushed prices up to $65 per gallon in 2009 (according to USDA figures; a maple-syrup industry blog, and how awesome is that, did its own survey and found retail prices averaging $95 a gallon). [...]