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Today we collected 40 gallons of sap and are doing our first boil tomorrow.

Younger sugar maple trees will have a smooth bark appearance with branches that often leave the trunk at a 90 degree angle (not always) and very small buds at the tips of the branches. See the first...

We tapped trees today. Located between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids. About 100 taps total some small trees (10-24 inches in diameter) in the sun were already dripping.

We're in East Central Iowa. This polar vortex has really put the sugar season on hold for the last 2 weeks. But with the Temps improving we are going to have all our trees tapped on Saturday 2/20/21...

Is anyone getting ready to tap soon. We had a couple days in the middle of January when the trees were probably flowing but we weren't prepared for them. Probably going to tap the trees the first...