Can you say global warning!!

[antelope76]

Here is a picture from 2 years ago to the day. it is 68 degrees out today!!

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[psparr]

We apparently came out of an ice age without mans input. I think we'll be ok. May take 10,000 years. Just be patient.

[Snappyssweets]

I like Global warming it ensures the fact the dinosaurs may have a chance if we bring them back. I would hate to think it would be cold enough for Woolly Mammoths again though so I will take the global warming over the ice age any day.

[eustis22]

you may not say that after your maples have moved to hudson's bay.

[psparr]

I'll just start growing pineapples.

[berkshires]

Any of you guys who live down in the lower syruping areas like Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, I do feel bad that your syruping days are numbered. But let me tell you, around where I syrup in the foothills of the Berkshires (Western MA), land is cheap! Well, maybe not cheap by rural Missouri standards, but not like you'd think in Massachusetts. Come on up and join me.

GO

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Any of you guys who live down in the lower syruping areas like Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, I do feel bad that your syruping days are numbered. But let me tell you, around where I syrup in the foothills of the Berkshires (Western MA), land is cheap! Well, maybe not cheap by rural Missouri standards, but not like you'd think in Massachusetts. Come on up and join me.

GO

How much per acre on average for land with road access and electric?

[berkshires]

How much per acre on average for land with road access and electric?

Picky picky picky. And does steep dirt road access count? There's a place up the road from me (dirt road) that says 3 acres for 18K. Not sure if the electric poles go as far as them, but I think so. Course you'd still have to pay to get the electric from the nearest pole to whatever you built there.

[RollinsOrchards]

If we get another 99 degree increase next year I would say you might have a trend.

[bigschuss]

But let me tell you, around where I syrup in the foothills of the Berkshires (Western MA), land is cheap!
GO

Land in the Berkshires is cheap? I'd love to find some of that cheap land!

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Picky picky picky. And does steep dirt road access count? There's a place up the road from me (dirt road) that says 3 acres for 18K. Not sure if the electric poles go as far as them, but I think so. Course you'd still have to pay to get the electric from the nearest pole to whatever you built there.

Not trying to be picky. I see large plots for sale in VT sometimes as low as $1500/acre. The question is, how accessible is it? South of Rochester NY large parcels are increasingly more difficult to find and those acres command a high price if they are tillable, or have good timber value. Large parcels are increasingly difficult to find for sale because people are always dividing it. Seems to me that cheap land is cheap for a reason.

But I'll take a steep dirt road over no road at all.

[madmapler]

There's some parcels in my area(south of the border) going for $1000/acre. Both have building lots on dead end, town maintained roads. One is 200+ acres with 1 building lot and the other is 350 or so with a few building lots, a pasture and a brook with fish running through it. They both have maples on them but not a real high density I don't think. Check realtor.com in Colrain, ma. I just checked realtor.com and they aren't saying the bigger lot is buildable but I still think it is. I know there's road frontage. They're saying it has a stand of maples too. Worth looking into.

[Flat Lander Sugaring]

I'd pay higher price for land and taxes so I could own my guns with no questions, permits, etc.

[michael marrs]

so , we in mid Mi, have had far too warm weather also. I ice fished last sat,.( our last day), and got 55 gals of sap that night. went in the next 4 days, and got about 15 gals a day.( 75 taps). Now, with the weather swinging the other way, will sap production go back the way it should? or is it like ice fishing, over? If so, Accuweather shows a nice stretch of below/above temps. fingers crossed.

[Snappyssweets]

Should pick back up for us in Mid Michigan likely starting tomorrow or Monday Morning.

As far as property Lots of it in Michigan rather cheap. I know of a place that will be up for sale in four or five years.
2 bedroom 1.5 bath, 1900 Sq ft. Screened in porch, (2) 2 car garages, city water for house, well for outside, fruit trees, fruit bushes and grape vines, maple trees, 7 acres of huntable land, private boat launch, private lake dock, private beach, across the road from 36 thousand acres of state land. 2 hours north of Detroit. Will likely sell for 150-175K

[Sugarbush Ridge]

berkshires,,,,,, This year was the worst ever that I've made maple syrup. 310 tubing and 115 buckets and only about 12 gals,,,,,, All VERY DARK!!!!!! Hadn't made syrup this dark since I was cooking on a steel pan. Move????? I've almost got new house done,,,,,, I'm not starting over!
Another guy down here,,,, two years ago made 250??? gals and this year,,, 25 gals,,,, with a few more taps

[berkshires]

berkshires,,,,,, This year was the worst ever that I've made maple syrup. 310 tubing and 115 buckets and only about 12 gals,,,,,, All VERY DARK!!!!!! Hadn't made syrup this dark since I was cooking on a steel pan. Move????? I've almost got new house done,,,,,, I'm not starting over!
Another guy down here,,,, two years ago made 250??? gals and this year,,, 25 gals,,,, with a few more taps

Sorry to hear it. I'm sure there will still be "normal" years, and even some cold ones. But the general direction is clear.

Good luck!

Gabe