An annual New Hampshire breakfast featuring lots of maple syrup products that emphasizes the risks climate change poses to the industry has an extra hook this year: Maple powerhouse Quebec is struggling.

Canadian news outlets are reporting that Quebec, which produces about 80% of the world’s maple syrup, has had two bad seasons in a row and its strategic reserve is running low The reserve, built by the government-overseen industry to control prices, is designed to hold 133 million pounds of syrup but had just 6.9 million pounds earlier this month. 

The Québec Maple Syrup Producers group is distributing millions of new taps across the province in an effort to increase future production.

On Wednesday, the 11th Climate Impacts Maple Breakfast will be held at Plymouth State University.

The annual gathering highlights the effects that climate change has on agriculture and maple syrup production in New England and New Hampshire.  U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan will be the keynote speaker.

The National Climate Assessment says that climate change produced by human activity is making sugar maple tapping more challenging because of unpredictable temperatures and conditions, as this winter has demonstrated. 

The breakfast will run from 8 to 9:30 a.m. on March 27 at the Merrill Conference Center on the PSU campus.