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Anyone experiencing cloudy sap yet? Despite cold nights and days, sap doesn't seem to be keeping well?

Slow and steady here.

• 80 taps with approx. 160 gallons sap this past week.

Nice start to the season!

Looks like early next week, we'll get a fair indication whether to begin tapping here in southern Grey County.

• 60 taps Feb. 25
• 200 gallons sap Mar. 1
• sugar content very low

Hello all,

How is your season going? Please record # taps and syrup produced to date:

Two week forecast not looking good. . . .

(Dimensions of our shack are 8 x 12').

To accommodate a stack exiting through the roof slope rather than the peak, we off-set our evaporator by about 1.5 feet from centre. Despite a centred cupola...

• 60 taps Saturday
• 25 gallons sap Sunday, boiled off.

There are signs that sap is running; a bit early yet. . . .

Cedar is great for starting the fire in your arch, however you'll be stoking more often than with hardwood.

In addition to "walking" the bit, this can occur when you drive the taps in too far; a tendency for newbees. Aside from removing theM and re-tapping there's not much you can do once they start...

80 taps in--75 gallons sap collected; first sugaring-off tomorrow.

50-tapped March 8
30-tapped March 9

Sap flowing in sheltered bush trees. Fence line trees frozen.

Thought it was time to get southwestern Ontario on here. Let us know how your season unfolds.

Still too cold here in Grey County. The long range doesn't look promising until the end of the first week of March.

Nowhere near ready here in Grey County--still too cold. Danger of splitting taps.

At earliest, maybe toward the end of the first week of March.

Tapping our 100 taps today--

We're in the Holstein area and plan to begin tapping today.

Despite a Saturday overnight temp. of -16C, we had no run yesterday as the day time temp. only rose to +1. And last night the temperature only dropped to -1C. Today, could be our last day of the...

A few producers to the west of us near Lake Huron have taken off small batches of syrup. Still too cold to run in our area. Tapping another 55 today in anticipation of runs beginning tomorrow.

Tapped 45 last weekend. Hardly any sap to date. Tapping another 55 today in advance of the milder spell predicted next week.

-16C here this morning. No one, to my knowledge has tapped yet in our immediate area (Holstein, ON).

Got about 10cm snow Friday night and Saturday. Enough to give us a comfortable snow base.

Thanks for the advice--very helpful!

I'm a small syrup producer in Ontario. I have a colleague who operates a CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) program in his small rural community in Georgia. He's interested in including maple...

Pulled our taps and buckets one week ago. At that time we had 60 ltrs from 64 taps ~ 95% season. Noticed taps are still running today. With the warm temperatures predicted Wednesday, this might be a...