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NAMSC Maple Hall of Fame: 2025 Nominations

NAMSC Maple Hall of Fame: 2025 Nominations

NAMSC Maple Hall of Fame: Updates & 2025 Nominations Most everyone in the maple industry is aware of the International Maple Hall of Fame, located in Croghan, New York. Since 1977, the Hall of Fame has honored over 100 individuals who have made a...

VMSMA Shares Reaction to Proposed Tariffs

VMSMA Shares Reaction to Proposed Tariffs

Vermont's WPTZ covered reactions from local agricultural industries regarding the proposed 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. You can find the coverage online HERE.

Vermont-Canada Trade Relations & Tariffs

Vermont-Canada Trade Relations & Tariffs

News coverage of the anticipated US tariffs on Canadian products and implications for the maple industry

Update on Maple & Tariffs

Update on Maple & Tariffs

Someone recently described this spring as the “apex of uncertainty” and, for me, that really resonated. Producers were in the midst of the season, with all of the weather fluctuations that brought varied sap flows and dips and valleys for sap sugar...

Bird Friendly Maple Receives $2 million from USDA Forest Service

Bird Friendly Maple Receives $2 million from USDA Forest Service

Audubon Receives Forest Landowner Support Award for Bird-Friendly Maple Program Today the National Audubon Society received $2 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service to support the Bird-Friendly Maple program. The investment...

MAPLE Act Proposes to Add Maple to Federal Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition Program

MAPLE Act Proposes to Add Maple to Federal Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition Program

Bipartisan support to add maple products to the federal Seniors Farmers Market Nutrition Program Vermont Business Magazine - Today, US Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) joined US Representatives Nick Langworthy (R-NY-23) and...

2024 Governor's Tree Tapping

2024 Governor's Tree Tapping

Governor Phil Scott Visits Buck Family Maple for 2024 Tree Tapping WASHINGTON —March means maple for many in our region, and Vermont is already off to a sweet start.

Baird Farm Highlighted in Seven Days Newspaper

Baird Farm Highlighted in Seven Days Newspaper

Baird Farm's Next Generation Embraces Maple Open House Weekend Seven Days - What do Bigfoot, a bubbling cauldron and three-plus politicians tapping a single tree have in common? No joke — though it's tempting — they're all signs of Spring Maple Open...

Food Safety in the News

Food Safety in the News

VMSMA shared Sugarhouse Certification with WCAX and helped clarify changes to organic defoamer.