Maple Syrup’s OPEC Hits Back Against the U.S. With Record Harvest
- Quebec aims to reclaim market share, fight black-market sales
- ‘Weather has been on our side’ for output boost: federation
Canadian Maple Syrup is sold in a gift shop in downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on Monday, November 25, 2013.
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Quebec, the world’s largest maple-syrup producer, said this season’s harvest rose 2.7 percent to a record amount large enough to fill 24 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Production this spring rose to 152.2 million pounds from 148.2 million in 2016 after farmers increased the number of syrup-extracting taps on maple trees by 1.4 million, the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers said Wednesday in a statement.