Agricultural Vermont

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Sweet trees, sour circumstances: the long search for sustainability in the North American maple products industry

“…Vermont has also been the site of a number of economic studies on the production of maple syrup on the farm (Sendak and Bennink, 1985;Huyler, 2000). A study of the US Tarriff Commission (1930) and the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (Hitchcock, 1928) in the 1920s demonstrated that the maple syrup industry was a significant cash crop for many farmers in Vermont, particularly those on more marginal sites (Anderson and Woodard, 1932). Approximately onethird of Vermont's farmers produced maple syrup or sugar.…”