Otsego County 2017

[Brian Ryther]

We began tapping today.

[Maplewalnut]

Good luck Brian. Put that new building to work

[Brian Ryther]

We finished tapping today.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

Good Luck Brian. We have 6500 in about 2500 to go. Looks like you may have some production weather in the next week or so.

[treehugger]

First boil in the books yesterday. Sap was running pretty good a few days ago by me in Oneonta but real sugar low content. Anyone have this too?

[Brian Ryther]

First boil in the books yesterday. Sap was running pretty good a few days ago by me in Oneonta but real sugar low content. Anyone have this too?
Good sugar content before yesterday, 54:1, yesterday 70:1.
1/3 of full crop so far.

[lew]

We are a little north and west of you. We have been boiling 70+ to 1 since the beginning. We are a little under a third of a crop. Mostly dark.

[doocat]

We were down to 1% yesterday and today. No freeze for four nights. Hopefully the freeze tonight will reset the trees! We are 45 minutes south of you guys.

[sugarman3]

Same for me Brian,have not shut pump off all week,sugar on wed was 2.1-today was 1.2.glad a cold spell is here

[treehugger]

It was kind of weird running the vacuum pump during a thunderstorm yesterday.

[treehugger]

The reds are budding already by me in Oneonta.

[Brian Ryther]

Kick *** run for the past two days. tons of sap, little sleep, decent amount of syrup. chasing wind damage this afternoon between collecting and boiling. we are at 1/2 way mark today. very happy for March 1st. New arch is awesome. 60 - 75 gallons of syrup hr @15 % concentrate.

[Brian Ryther]

Snow storm last week was a SOB. 5 days of digging out main lines. Back to making syrup. We finished tapping today. 2/3 crop. Great syrup still. Great smell and flavor. Bouncing back and forth between Amber and Dark.

[Brian Ryther]

Finished up last night. Syrup went from very dark to amber by the end of the night. 31 gallons of sap per tap. I am short of the 1/2 gallon goal. I have not subtracted out the purchased sap out of the syrup total. I would say it was a good year. Not great. Low sugar was the problem. Nothing I could have done different to change that. I figure it was about 74:1.

[Maplewalnut]

Good job Brian...same story here, 70:1 for the year. Ouch

[Walling's Maple Syrup]

Congrats Brian. Any season you can get over 30 gallons per tap is a good year for sure. I will be done today. Haven't done the total figures yet, but fromwhat little I've looked at them, looks like I'll be a little over 70:1.