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2016 CORNELL SAP PRICING GUIDE

Customizable pricing guide a sugarmaker’s friend
By MICHAEL FARRELL
Cornell University

Many sugarmakers buy sap
as a means of augmenting their
own syrup production and getting better utilization of the
equipment in their sugarhouse.
There are many factors that can
and should affect the prices a
sugarmaker is willing to pay
for sap. These include sap sugar
concentration, bulk syrup prices, sap quality, and how syrup
production or revenues will be
divided