Mother Nature smiled on maple farmers in 2024

A sure sign of spring in Canada is snow melting and maple taps running on a sunny March day. However, a good maple run requires a stretch of mild spring days and frosty nights. 

For the fourth spring in six years, Mother Nature, in combination with the hard work of maple farmers, delivered a record-breaking maple run.

Canadian maple farmers tapped 19.9 million gallons of maple syrup in 2024, up 90.7% compared with 2023 and 14.3% higher than the previous record set in 2022. 

How great was last spring’s maple harvest? To place it in historical perspective, more maple syrup was tapped in the spring of 2024 than during the first three years of the 21^st century combined.

Production was up across all four major maple-producing provinces in 2024 after a challenging 2023, when production fell to an eight-year low in the wake of a wide-ranging ice storm in the early spring and large temperature swings.

Canada’s maple run was valued at another record high of $837,325,000 in 2024, up 48.9% from the previous record high set in 2020 and 133.7% higher compared with a decade earlier.

Quebec remains by far Canada’s maple syrup leader, accounting for 90.7% of the national total, with production topping 18 million gallons in 2024, up 8.7 million gallons (+92.2%) from 2023.

Production in New Brunswick more than doubled (+128.8%) to 1.2 million gallons. 

Maple farmers in Ontario (607,000 gallons) and Nova Scotia (43,000 gallons) accounted for the remainder of the 2024 maple run.

During the 2021 Census of Agriculture, we counted 6,364 farms reporting maple taps in eight provinces.

We will be talking to maple farmers again in the spring of 2026.