AIC specialists from Cornell’s Maple Program will help maple producers craft value-added maple products and improve the uniformity and quality of these products. They will also help producers evaluate the economics of making, pricing and selling value added products.

If you are a producer and interested in participating, please contact us:

Peter Smallidge, Director of Arnot Research Forest and host site, pjs23@cornell.edu 
Stephen Childs, Program Coordinator, Cornell Maple Specialist, slc18@cornell.edu 
Brian Chabot, Director of Cornell Maple Program, bfc1@cornell.edu

Activities:
Provide 6 maple value-added recipes estimated to be the most marketable.

Conduct Maple Value Added Workshops –hands on workshops in a maple kitchen making value added products coupled with testing products against a quality standard.

Quality test producer value added products
Recruit 12 producers and conduct costs of production and marketing cost evaluations

Develop the Maple Value Added Product Guidelines and make these available to producers at presentations at 2007 Winter Maple Schools and Conferences.

Select a group of 10 producers to meet with grocery and specialty chain representatives to seek to cooperatively market value added maple products in city or suburban stores.

For more information, please read our proposal. (Download PDF)

Also Visit: Cornell Maple Program