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Maple Syrup Production Statistics Introduction The production of maple syrup has a long history in North America. The 1840 Census was the sixth population census, but the first agricultural production census within the United States. Due to preservation issues of keeping syrup only sugar was made. Not until the 1860 (8 th Census) was there reporting of gallons of syrup as well as pounds of sugar produced. Like many commodities, tracking the true production is a difficult matter. The United States Department of Agriculture - National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) and their State NASS field offices have a huge undertaking each year to track and record the many commodities under their direction. Their reports are taken from individual maple producers and then estimates are made from this data as to the total production within a state. Though this is the best possible process given the large number of commodities and vast number of producers it is still an estimate. Information gathered by NASS is good if those reporting provide accurate numbers as statistics are only as good as the numbers reported. If the true production volumes are not reported then the true picture of the total production is not obtainable. In some cases it may not be the numbers reported, but rather the size of the operation that can have an influence. As an example, in Ohio NASS only collects data from producers with more than 250 taps. In 2004 a research project of the Ohio maple syrup industry was undertaken (Graham, 2005). Results showed that in 2004 producers in Ohio with less than 250 taps represented 59% (n=368) of the total production population sampled (N=620). The 250 taps and under producers represented only 10% of the total taps reported, they still represented 35,897 taps. In 2004 NASS indicated yield per tap for Ohio was .193 gallons per tap. If counted these taps would have added another 6,928 gallons of production. Assuming total production volume/taps were provided. These results were based on 620 returned surveys (68% response rate) from the research (Graham, 2005). The difficult variable is that not all producers were contacted as they were not on any lists or registrations to be contacted by the NASS field offices or the researcher. Another indicator to reporting impacts is to look to the State of Wisconsin. In 2007/2008 Wisconsin’s field office of NASS aggressively worked hard to gain better identification of maple syrup producers in the state. This resulted in a large increase in reported production from 95,000 gallons in 2007 to 150,000 gallons reported in 2008. Another boost came in 2009 with the passing of Wisconsin Act 101 also called the Pickle Bill, requiring registration for all cottage food based operations. 2013 saw the full implementation of the Pickle Bill within the Wisconsin maple production. This is evident as their maple production numbers jumped over 100,000 gallons due to getting better reporting results. 3 Again NASS does an outstanding job with an astronomical task. Most people in the maple industry realize that the production numbers reported are an estimate and that production is much higher than the final volume reported due to not obtaining all production volumes or total volume numbers. Some would argue it could be doubled. This project was not about speculating or guessing even though there are multiple software packages which do a very good job of this. Rather it was decided to report all the data that came from a reliable government based resource only. It was also decided to not manipulate the data to fill gaps where no data was discovered. Compiled Data The charts in the following pages were compiled from the sources listed in the reference section. There are gaps in many of the state’s results as no data was found from a government source. I was able to research hard copy records of agricultural statistics from the Ohio field office of NASS and the Ohio Department of Agricultural (ODA) reports. Some state maple associations reported data was found. However, this data was not used due to having no knowledge of the percentage of the total producer base it represented or how it was collected. Rounding Production Volumes Perceived errors may be discovered in total production numbers compiled between different resources. The decision was made to use the newest and or the larger of the production numbers found between the various resources utilized. Rounding was based on the 500 gallon mark. Example: if production was 44,499 it would have been inputted as 44 (1,000 gallons), and if 44,501 it was recorded as 45 (1,000 gallons). This process was used through all data found. A two digit number representing the thousands of gallons (1,000 gallons) for production volume was used for the historical data as that is how the data is reported today. Sugar to Syrup Conversion Another issue in figuring total production volume is at what degree brix (°brix) was the syrup finished. Due to the different density of finishing points of legal syrup in different states/provinces Ohio’s minimum of 66°brix was used as the base measuring point when converting pounds of sugar to syrup. A gallon of syrup finished to 66°brix should weigh 11.02 pounds and should represent 7.27 pounds of sugar (0.66 X 11.02 = 7.27 lbs.). Reporting of pounds of sugar was discontinued with the 1956 production year. Prior to 1956 if pounds of sugar produced were reported the volume of sugar (lbs.) was multiplied by 1.51 (11.02 ÷ 7.27 = 1.51) to get the conversion of pounds of sugar to gallons of syrup. Many arguments can be made pro and con for this method. Most weights and measurements agencies use 11.07 pounds as the weight for syrup. Some use 8 pounds of sugar per gallon of syrup. 4 Canada Production Some data was found for maple production of syrup in Canada. Often the production is broken out into syrup, sugar, taffy, and other confections making the conversion back to gallons of syrup much more complicated. Problems arise in the conversion from the various metric units used to U.S. gallons and to U.S. dollars as the exchange rate varies so much year to year. The other concern was much of the data was not in a government reported publication. Therefore the decision was made to report only the data reported by USDA-NASS from 2000 to 2011. Since the printing of the 2012 version of this report, data was located from Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture starting in 2009 and was included in this updated report. Closing Thoughts A large volume of data came from going through the yearly hardcopy reports from both the Ohio office of NASS and the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s reports. Very few of these older publications are available electronically requiring physically searching for the data. In 2004 conversations with both the National and Ohio field offices of NASS to obtain production data they indicated that they could not provide the data as it was proprietary. Meaning producer/client information is never released in a raw format. Raw data could contain individual production operations and this is sensitive data. The only data requested was total production (gallons) total value (dollars) and price per gallon. Even though both USDA-NASS and Ohio State University follow strict proprietary standards with clientele information the data was not obtainable Special Thanks A special thank you is given to Mr. Mike Girard, Mr. Tom McCrumm, Mr. Gary Keough, Mr. Henry Marckres, Dr. Timothy Perkins, and Dr. Mike Farrell for providing assistance and data for this report in the 2012 version. A thank you to the North American Maple Syrup Council for the grant to cover a portion of the original research conducted in 2012 and to Ohio State University Extension for covering the remainder of the original research costs and for covering the costs of this updated 2016 version. |
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There's a higher probability of children pushing their parents for the C64 instead. Commodore's mistake is the lack of transition from C64 and A500. i.e. a game console-style hardware generation jump. Quote:
Apple's 1994 install base is 14 million. https://www.timesheraldonline.com/20...he-mac-legend/ Apple sold 14 million Macintosh around Q1 1994. According to Dataquest November 1989, VGA crossed more than 50 percent market share in 1989 i.e. 56%. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/c...lysis_1989.pdf Low-End PC Graphics Market Share by Standard Type Estimated Worldwide History and Forecast Total low-end PC graphic chipset shipment history and forecast 1987 = 9.2. million, VGA 16.4% market share i.e. 1.5088 million VGA. 1988 = 11.1 million, VGA 34.2% i.e. 1.51 million VGA. 1989 = 13.7 million, VGA 54.6% i.e. 3.80 million VGA. 1990 = 14.3 million, VGA 66.4% i.e. 9.50 million VGA. 1991 = 15.8 million, VGA 76.6% i.e. 12.10 million VGA. 1992 = 16.4 million, VGA 84.2% i.e. 13.81 million VGA. 1993 = 18.3 million, VGA 92.4% i.e. 16.9 million VGA. Quote:
A full document production cycle with a knowledge base system involves accounting, business development (marketing), spreadsheets, word processors, and document management. Alternatively, customer relationship management is attached or central to accounting, business development (marketing), spreadsheets, word processors with knowledge base systems (near auto letter generation), and document management (search engines). MS Office is just a foundation for a larger knowledge base system with a customer relationship management center. Last edited by hammer; 27 May 2024 at 07:20. |
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When the C64 was released the box artwork said there was a CP/M option, and when they hadn't produced anything the FCC ordered them to stop advertising it until the cartridges were ready for sale. Eventually they did release it, but then it wouldn't work with later C64 motherboards. Commodore promised that the C128 would run CP/M after a C64 user chastised them for the CP/M cartridge not running on their machine, which proves that some people wanted it. The C128 probably could have been made to work with the CP/M cartridge, but putting the Z80 on the motherboard was cheaper than making it compatible with the cartridge! CP/M on the C64 wasn't a great idea because the C64 only had 40 column text and most apps expected 80 columns. The C128 fixed that. Furthermore Amstrad (their main competition in the UK and Europe) included CP/M with their machines, so adding it to the C128 specs could increase sales even if 'nobody' used it. Another thing you might not know is that many 'professional' programming languages were available for CP/M, including Aztec C, HiTech C (since used by Microchip for their 8-bit MCUs), BDS C, and HiSoft C. This potentially made the C128 a good development machine and/or learning tool for professional programmers. So CP/M added to the machine's more businesslike status that justified the higher price (even if 99% of users only played C64 games on it). |
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And it was so nice. I mean it was a kind of piece of art you are happy to have a glance in the morning when you wake up. There was a lot of details in the C128 which made it more enjoyable to use than the C64 I had before. It was like driving a Ferrari but I think you have to use it to realized it. For example, this is a small detail, but the 100% C64 compatibility, reachable in the blink of an eye was just enjoyable. I mean it worked. All the time, and in 1s. It was just here without complication. I'm sure it took more time today to launch a C64 emulator in Windows than to type GO 64 in the C128 and be with the blue screen. It was a whole, the machine was very good. |
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Now CP/M did hook into various bits of the Amstrad ROM firmware routines, including using AMSDOS as well as things like printing characters to the screen but that doesn't make any of those parts of CP/M, it simply treated those as BIOS functions. |
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Can someone remove those stupid maple syrup posts please? Last edited by Thorham; 27 May 2024 at 10:26. |
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Also something to consider is that for every business that used CP/M mode, that was one less customer for C128 mode software, as I don't imagine it would have been very practical to try to be using both in combination. |
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It's about as relevant as most of the other posts to be honest. How this thread has lasted so long is a mystery.
Q. Was anyone else disappointed with the A1200 A. Yes. It could have been better in many ways almost all of which would have delayed it further and cost more, unless - insert hypothetical change in approach to development here - happened. Done. |
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Interestingly their best sales year is 1992 and 2 years later commodore went down the drain
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Without enough custom chips made by HP they could not meet the demand… So they largely missed the important Christmas season in 92 as the A600 was dead in the water and could only be sold off at a loss. Without the stupid A600 and an affordable AA1000 by end of 91 they could have avoided most of their problems What I am more curious about is at what point in time Commodore’s PC business went sour, or if that product line did make any significant profit in any given year. Never came across any hard numbers here. |
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