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I am looking at purchasing a PTFE lined silo for storing permeate. Have folks had any experience with this? Will the coating hold up over time? The tank has previously been used for flour storage.

CDL. Call your dealer

Yes. I need to do more research on bird friendly, but definitely we need sellers to be organic. How are peoples woods looking after the storm?

Hey VT Sugarmakers,

We're looking to buy raw sap or concentrate this season and beyond. We have a sugarhouse in Westford where we could receive sap/concentrate and a remote sugarbush in Jericho...

We shut down today, our buyer is done. Organic price for producers making over 35000 pounds delivering with own drums is 2.28. Processing grade for same producer would be 1.68. Processing would seem...

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...

We use CV2s. This is our third season using them and put in over 10k per year. They are proven to yield higher than other spouts, that’s why we use them, but they are more brittle than others we used...

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....

Got about 1/3 gpt in Jericho today.. we’ll keep the pump on until the buyer says we’re shut off

Tree hugger, where are you located and what elevation?

I agree, I was interested in that article and am even considering using it if/when I set up new woods. We use a tapping pattern now but the pattern shown in that article allows for many more years of...

We had our last boil in Westford last night. Ended up at .42 gpt.. the sap had pretty much stopped flowing a week ago. Meanwhile in Jericho, where we started tapping on January 1 and finished tapping...

I'd be curious to see differences in stain column area between 1/4" and 5/16" spouts. If 1/4" spouts produce 10-11% less stained wood than 5/16", then I would see that as a reasonable alternative to...

Parker you asked about our soils.. In Westford where the sap has pretty much stopped we have Lyman-Marlow complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes, very rocky. This is a well drained soil type according to...

Hey Doc P.

Quick follow up to my son's post yesterday on sap flow (or lack of).
We are collecting sap is 2 areas, Westford and Jericho.
Tuesday night a good freeze in both areas.
Wednesday ran...

Those Smart Spouts that I had mentioned had stopped running a few days ago started running again today.. They mostly look pretty dirty but still were kicking out sap, suprisingly. Seems like they...

Thanks Dr. Tim. I'm very interested in Hyperbrix if/when we start boiling all our own sap. Could you comment on the following? - My dad and I were discussing why our taps in Westford have pretty much...

Running very good in our Jericho woods while our westford woods is not running well. Westford woods face East and warm up quicker so not sure what’s going on. Good freeze in both woods last Night,...

I put an anchor with a ratchet at the beginning and at the end and that's it, unless the mainline is real short and I'll just put a gripple at the end. My experience has been if you put anchors very...

The tubing was installed fall 2015 and this is our 5th year tapping these trees that I mentioned where we are running CV2s. Drops are same age.

We also used non CVs in a different section of the...

I'm hoping for two more weeks, Spud. I have found that there have been several times in the last few weeks where a week or 5 days out the forecast shows warm temps at night, but as we get closer to...

I think we are paid on rule of 86 and they test with a refractometer

Spud, sorry to hear of what happened last year and glad you have moved on. I agree 100% with you. .4 is a pretty extreme discrepancy. Best of luck with the new buyer. Do you know if this buyer uses...

Spud, I know you sell sap and we also do from one of our properties. Curious how you are paid. not percentage of bulk rate, but rather how does your buyer calculate how much syrup they made from your...

i know i'm not answering all your questions, but i'd just replace the brass valve with a plastic one. We run 3 plastic check valves in total and they all don't leak as far as I know. We get them at...