Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

Giddings Hill, that's a hard run! 2000 gallons out today. Tonight's freeze will open them right up again.

Spoke to soon. My buyer just pulled the plug but I can't complain. Made 1118 gallons of syrup out of 62042 gallons of sap giving me .4 gallons syrup per tap. May the Maple Gods smile on the producers still going!

Fantastic to hear everyones totals, super impressive. I finished bottling this weekend and ended up with a total off 55 gallons on the nose. Crushed the 20 gallon goal I had. But as usual, I cannot leave well enough alone so I will spend the next 8-10 months dinking around and trying to up the taps, add a preheater, build a good set up, and figure out the RO situation!


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We shut it down this afternoon. clear sap but wouldn't RO. unbelievable flow still, since just 7am this morning we had another 3500 gal when i shut it down around 6pm. where was this weather two weeks ago?
A good season, probably around 6.5 lbs/tap

Congrats Giddings. We’re still collecting in Jericho. Not getting more than 2000 gals/day these last few days off of 11.5k taps but our buyer is still coming. Said they’re making processing grade. We’ll see how it runs tomorrow and Sunday. Would be curious to know how producers are doing in the higher elevations.. forecast seems like it might allow them to go until late April. This spring reminds me of 2018

Anyone in Vermont still going?

there are a couple guys near me still going... however they're up close to 2000 feet in elevation! my hunting camp is about that high... 1950 feet. was up there last weekend checking things out and the red maples were pretty swollen, however sugar maples didn't even have any sign of budding. still a good foot to 2 feet of snow up there as well.

we are still going, was thinking it was over Friday (primary sap buyer shut down) but another buyer said he wanted the sap. So we are still going, though im only running the pump intermittently and starting to pull some spouts. impressive flow still. I know some guys in the Waterville/Belvidere/Montgomery area are still at it, and Butternut Mountain's home woods crew in Johnson is still boiling.

We're still collecting in Jericho. Sap flow is actually pretty decent for how late in the season. Our buyer is still able to filter okay. Some CDL signature spouts that I thought had dried up a month ago are still flowing a little on 2nd year drops. Sap is at .8.

There is at least some production still going on in the NEK.