Canadian maple syrup production hits record high in 2022: StatCan
Canada’s maple syrup producers had a file harvest this yr, pulling in 79.1 million litres of the candy stuff, a current report from Statistics Canada reveals.
This yr’s harvest represents a 53.8 per cent improve from 2021 and is the highest yield on file, relationship again to at the very least 2008.
“Production was up across all maple-producing provinces largely because of favourable weather conditions and continued expansions in the industry,” the report, launched on Dec. 14, says.
“Higher yields in 2022 followed the previous year’s lower production brought on by a short maple season attributable to warm spring temperatures in 2021.”
StatCan reviews maple manufacturing in imperial gallons, which in 2022 rose to 17.4 million throughout Canada.
Quebec harvested greater than 91 per cent of the nation’s maple syrup, producing 72.3 million litres or 15.9 million gallons, a 59.1 per cent improve from 2021 and a brand new file excessive for the province, StatCan says.
Producers in New Brunswick reported a 3.2 per cent improve to their maple harvest in 2022, producing about 3.7 million litres or 810.9 thousand gallons, which StatCan attributes to new tappings and a rising business.
New Brunswick reported the second most maple faucets within the nation in 2021 at 3.5 million, a StatCan report this previous summer season discovered.
The report says farms within the province had the best price of faucets per farm on common within the nation at 18,744, far higher than the nationwide common of 4,735.
Ontario, the third largest producer of maple in Canada, additionally noticed historic excessive yields within the northern components of the province, which contributed to a 27.7 per cent rise in manufacturing to 2.7 million litres or 589.8 thousand gallons.
Canadian producers exported near 38.6 million litres or 8.5 million gallons of maple merchandise within the first three-quarters of this yr, a 3.4 per cent lower from record-high exports over the identical interval final yr, StatCan says.
A 2020 report from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada discovered the nation accounts for roughly three-quarters of the world’s maple syrup manufacturing, adopted by the United States.
The file harvest comes after the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers accessed its strategic reserve final yr with the intention to meet home and export demand.
Located on the Laurierville plant and warehouse about 200 kilometres northeast of Montreal, the huge reserve can maintain 94,000 barrels of maple syrup, every containing 205 litres.
StatCan says elevated manufacturing within the province allowed the federation to replenish the reserve.
In June 2021, Quebec Maple Syrup Producers additionally introduced that it could difficulty seven million new faucets for startup and enlargement initiatives, bringing the entire quantity in manufacturing to just about 57 million by 2024.
With information from CTVNews.ca
