Registration deadline: February 1st. Cost: Free. Starts at 7pm. Presenter: Michael Farrell, Northern New York Maple Specialist and Cornell Uihlein Forest. This workshop will provide you information relating to becoming a new maple producer making syrup and/or value-added products, leasing trees to an existing maple producer, or tapping trees and selling sap. The workshop will discuss the details of ag assessment and provide landowners with a list of maple producers interested in buying sap or leasing trees. Additional resources provided at the workshop will include a sample landowner-producer lease agreement and information on how landowners can qualify for an agricultural assessment tax benefit.
Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra, NY