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Hey I know not all of us are done with the season but those that are could you please post how your season was. If it was good or bad and what state you are located in. I live in southern NH and i didn't have a good season but I want to know how your season was. Thanks mr. Red maple
This was my first season, so I really have nothing to compare it to, but I ended up with a gallon of syrup per 5 taps. Considering that most of my trees were frozen woods trees, that doesn't seem too bad to me.
0.3 gallons of finished syrup per tap would be a great year for us.
This year we got 0.22 GPT.
I’d call it fair to middlin’ for my place here in south central Michigan.
We had another good year in Central VT. Made just about 1/2 gal per tap. I threw away a lot of .8% sap at the beginning, but it got nice and sweet during the short season we had again. My first boil was 3/29 and last was 4/21 with some pretty cloudy sap at 1.2%. It still made Dark Robust but tasted strong.
Record year for me .6gal per tap
Keith
Second year. Eight taps in MA. Season 6 weeks last year vs 4 weeks this year. Production increase from .66 gallons to 1 gallon. I'd call it a win.
First year for me, .375 per tap in Connecticut.
It looks like it was a good year for the producers more to the South. Up here, it went from -15 degrees April 6th. to 60 degrees and no night freeze by the 20th. We had maybe two weeks that it ran decent. All you can do is set up the best system you can and hope for the best. We have no control over the weather.
I made 1200 gallons on 3200 taps in spite of missing most of the early part of the season and having numerous issues. All in all it was a real tough year for me with not too bad results in the end. I really spent myself though.
.423 pre tap for me