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OMSPA Summer Tour
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Technical Sessions


"From Here Forward ...”

"In the Woods ..."

​Woodlot Management 101

Eric Boysen - Woodlot Owner & Partner in New Leaf Forest Services
3/16" Tubing - Lessons Learned

Paul Smith - ​LDMSPA Producer
Accessing Tress for the Future

Brodie Berrigan - LDMSPA Producer
Maple Operation Risk Management: The Derecho Experience 

Scott Deugo - Fulton's Sugar Bush & Maple Shop, LDMSPA Producer
Designing an Efficient 5/16" Collection System

Bill Hubbert - Hubbert's Maple, Algonquin & District Producers
Carbon Neutral / Negative Maple Syrup Production

Paul Renaud - ​LDMSPA Producer
Maple Plantations: 35 Years Later

Jamie Fortune - Fortune Farms Sugar Bush, LDMSPA Producer

"In the Camp ..."

​A Disruptive Technology: Electric Evaporators

Steve O’Farrell - CDL
Making Syrup for Beginners: 2 to 250 taps

Darrell Halladay - Halladay Maple, LDMSPA Producer
Managing Your Sugar House (title tbc)
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Joel Boutin - Maple Technical Advisor & Teacher
Cost/Benefit of Micro & Hobby ROs

Neil Cruise - CDL
Filtering Methods and Lessons

Speaker tbc
​Establishing a Maple Products Kitchen

Steve Brackenridge - Squirrel Creek Farm Services
Equipping a New Small Operation

Steve Skinner - Mississippi Maple, LDMSPA Producer
Maple Syrup Grading & Labelling 

Ray Bonenberg - Mapleside Sugar Bush
The Ins and Outs of Making Quality Syrup

Dan and Tracy Séguin - Séguin Sugar Bush
Royal Winter Fair Grand Champions: 2017, 2021
Corbett Award for Maple Products 2022

"In the Market ..."

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The Ontario Opportunity from a Packer's Perspective

Chad Jakeman
CEO, Jakeman Maple Products
​Economics of Entering Different Segments of the Maple Market
to be confirmed
Getting the Story to Consumers

Kelly Daynard
Farm and Food Care Ontario

Demonstrations

360 Agriculture & Food

Kelly Daynard
Farm and Food Care Ontario
Developing a Taste for the Good Things in Life:  The Terroir of Maple Syrup

Debbie Trenholm
Savvy Company
to be confirmed
The Maple Cooking Show 

Stacy Blair
The Pie Bar
to be confirmed

Panel Discussions

​Partnering with Local Economic Development and Tourism Agencies
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  • Tina Stevens, Valley Heartland CFDC
  • Amy Hogue (LDMSPA and OMSPA proposal writer)
  • Regional Tourism Organization (RTO) 

Moderator: Leann Thompson
​Partnering with, and Learning from Others 

  • ​Peggy Brekveld, Ontario Federation of Agriculture (tbc)
  • Allison Hope, Vermont Sugar Makers Association
  • John Pineau, Ontario Woodlot Association

Moderator: Randal Goodfellow
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