Most of Quebec's syrup is made on the CAN/US boarder around Maine, up in the mountains. Nearly everyone ended their season in early April with the super warm days. Many hardly had 2 weeks of...
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Most of Quebec's syrup is made on the CAN/US boarder around Maine, up in the mountains. Nearly everyone ended their season in early April with the super warm days. Many hardly had 2 weeks of...
I have been speaking with a few producers in Quebec/Maine, most of the northern producers had a bad year, in some cases worse than 2021.
I suspect that the total production this year will be less...
I guess my only thought would be that it might be easier to sell if people aren't worried about the arc making the spout more difficult to install, or if the arc somehow adds to the manufacturing...
I think that the barbed spouts is a great idea - its encouraging that the yields are showing that indeed improved yields are possible.
I however suspect that the arc connections and external barbs...
Dr Tim, When was your first run this year? There were a lot of warm days through Jan and Feb and I am wondering if you got them
We got pretty serious about improving the trees on the farm a few years ago. We rented an excavator, and pulled out all the buckthorn around all the fields - they made an impenetrable barrier between...
last year, all our driveway maples had really small leaves. This year, the trees look really healthy, as they usually do. It could be a one-off issue as it was with us. It might have been caused by a...
All,
We were devastated by the 'Derecho' wind storm in Ontario this last weekend. The brunt of the storm passed right through one of our forests, it was totally leveled. We lost 8,000 of 11,000...
This year we bought a high brix RO, I thought I would share some of our experiences, and I have a question if anyone else out there can help.
We made 35 brix concentrate this year, the RO worked...
Hello All,
We tapped our birch trees again this year. The start of the birch season was a few days before the end of the Maple Season according to the test tree we had in the forest. Due to the...
Dr. Tim, I follow this thread closely, although we are 700 km from you, our season always ends within a day or so of yours (checking back on your comments/records from a few years back now).
We are...
I am wondering what your experiences have been with the maximum flow per tap on average for a large installation is. Yesterday, we had a real gusher, like we havn't seen in a few years, I calculated...
Oh that heart sinking feeling, I know it too well...
The time I came to a sap tank that should have been full but had fallen off its supports and broken the drain valve...
The time the float box...
I know the feeling, we have a few dozen walnuts, I have yet to tap them, but they have been tempting me.
Last year we made birch syrup for the first time, all sort of weird problems that you dont...
Further, while I understand that a single tree may exist over 100 years and in isolation does not make a significant contribution to carbon emission in a 1 year period and therefore cannot account to...
I heard that the federation in Quebec is out of organic and that they will sell out completely by April...
On the evaporator, we put all the concentrate on at once, and boil it altogether. We mix it around a bit as we are finding some areas are boiling off faster than other areas (I suppose adding...
The flowers of the Red Maples in our area all died off. the sugars seem to be fine.
I don't know if anyone has an answer to this questions - its equivalent to what is the difference between red maple and sugar maple syrup, you can make syrup from all birch as I understand. We have a...
One interesting difference is that once the trees start to flow, they don't stop - they just decide to start one day and then continue until the sap goes bad - we are about 1.5 weeks in, and the flow...
Hello All,
We are trying to make some birch syrup this year. With the disappointment in the Maple crop, we quickly turned our attention to some birch trees we have been eying for the last few...
The one advantage to using a 5/16th line would be that you can also develop a natural vacuum in 5/16th line when there is high flow. This is not possible in a 1/2 or 3/4 mainline. Last year I tested...
We typically put them together with the mainlines loose, and then put a side tie with some 14 gauge to pull it really tight once they are coupled together.
We use SS sanitary couplings - you can put as much strain on them without them leaking under vacuum. The Banjo's leak if you are looking for a lot of tension.
In a few places we have installed...
Has anyone made syrup through the Maple belt?
We started tapping on Jan 4th, we are going to be close to 39,000 taps this year. We had the first 15,000 tapped by last Thursday and were surprised to...