Canada Taps Into Its Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve to Avoid a Shortage
By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie It's the first time the stockpile has had to be touched in three years. For some commodities, maintaining reserve supplies is a clear necessity: Oil, for instance, isn't something the world wants to unexpectedly run out of. But stockpiles are common for all sorts of items: In 2018, America had record-breaking cheese reserves; in 2019, our bacon stockpiles hit a near 50-year high; and despite a terrible 2021 harvest, Champagne's perennial reserve stock system insures that the globe won't run out of bubbly. With that in mind, back in June, early signs of a maple…