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Being this is open house weekend, in St. Albans and the surrounding area, surely some member on Maple trader will post about what they seen for us that would love to be there! I personally had a...

For the last 10 years or maybe longer, I set the auto draw off up to be a brix or two weak, I fill barrels of syrup, then when ai have time I finish syrup, after a month or more the syrup I pump off...

FYI,
State wide maple association meeting Saturday April 20th, hopefully we will see some of are old buddies there that help start The West Virginia Maple Syrup Producers Association over 10 years...

Spud
Same event happened here in West Virginia off of snow storm where the snow was coating the trees for a day just about a week ago at the camp that shutdown on the last day of March, they got a...

Spud,
I’m so glad you moved back, your daily updates keeps me logging in and checking how you’re doing, 65000 gallons from 3400 taps. Keep on rolling hope you post your final numbers in two weeks!...

Watching Nate Bissell videos he asks everyone if they know how a filter press works, no one has expressed that they knew exactly how a filter press works. I know it took myself and my helper about 15...

Visited the boys at Spruce Knob Maple, sap still running in, just finished cooking the previous couple days sap, got a potential freeze coming this weekend, plus two harder freezes next week so their...

Dr. Tim,
Reaming a tap hole won’t work, maybe one good run! My father would pull the spile and move over an inch and drill a new hole, we had a nine week season one time with that practice! That is...

Darkmachine,
I’m getting low on filter aid and will be running up to Somerset county, to get a bag, I could pick you up a bag, save you some shipping cost, let me know I left my phone number in your...

My understanding the camp with the highest elevation trees at 4200 are still in production, sadly I wanted to lease the trees right in front of the big camp, trees are 4200 feet on the potential...

With the cold weather, give me and excuse to stay in the sugar camp kitchen and finish syrup, got 5 barrels to work up, will store right back into a cleaned stainless steel barrel, for keeping, I...

Well it appears the season is slowly coming to and end, one of the higher elevation producers sap turned buddy, he has a lot of red maples tapped sap crystal clear but produces tootsie roll favor,...

Dr. Tim,
We had this discussion before, tight buds last year in February, so buddy the syrup could have driven to Proctor if it wanted to by itself. West Virginia trees I’m convinced are completely...

Peter,
Are there other producers near you? Keep and an eye on them, they probably started early, unfortunately the seasons have changed a lot in my 26 years! First year in 98 started after...

Dr. Tim,
From my sources some producers had a real good year, other in the Southern and Western areas along the Ohio River struggled, some to the point that they are planning on selling equipment...

I would like to be upbeat about you situation but peep frogs are one of the strong signs the season is nearing the end, another saying that producers will repeat is the the peep frog has to look thru...

Finished with evaporator tonight, moved all sap forward put city water in back pan. Cooked for two hours until the sap is more concentrated, move to finishing pan, waste a little gas but not like a...

Final boil, last night 1000 gallons of slightly milky sap. Calling it a year, need to move everything from flue pan forward,
Boil that sixty gallons, too concentrate it before moving all to...

Hey Sugarmakers if you’re not cooking, or repairing tubing in your own camp today go visit a Sugar Camp that is open today for visitors, I’m willing to bet you will learn something, maybe see some...

My trees didn’t come out of last freeze running very strong the tapholes are getting tired and I don’t have the energy to go tinker with the holes to get then to give up a little more sap, the...

Rumors floating bulk price is starting at 2.20 a pound! My old Amish friend Henry Breeneman, who had bought many a tractor trailer load, said to me ounce that I could make money at 2.00 dollars a...

Got another 900 gallons ROed an ounce cooked in, I’ve had a great season got these last two good freezes coming, hopefully that should put me right around 300 gallon produced, for an old sick boy I’m...

What a season! Weather man said low of 28, here it is 5am and the thermometer reads 21 and it will drop at least another degree before daylight! High today 51, I have a funny feeling the trees are...

Had my Friday treatment in Harrisonburg, rushed back to West Virginia because had 1600 gallons of sap that needed attention, fired up RO at 4 pm on the dot, had 230 gallons in head tank at 7 pm,...

Hey something to think about! Maple syrup is 7.1 degrees above the boiling point of water which changes every day! Yes I said it water has a different boiling point due to barometric pressure,
So...