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Does anyone out there use a 140 qt mixer for making sugar? If so how many gallons can you do at a time? How do you heat it? We have a 30 qt mixer and can do 2½ gallon at a time. Looking to go bigger....

Thank you, Dr. Perkins

We are looking at installing a working bulk tank for next season. We will be concentrating to 15% - 16%. Does anyone know how cold we can go at that brix, before it will feeeze? I know the places...

This question is for Dr. Perkins. If you have 3500 gallons of 1.5% sap and you add 400 gallons of 8% sap, any idea what sugar content in the tank will be after it is mixed?

Thank you for the reply, Dr Perkins.

Does anyone out there use a 3 phase motor with VFD to run a liquid ring(water cooled) vaccum pump? I was told that it is not recommended, due to the pump not working correctly at slower speeds?

Does anyone out there have a leader smart draw and use it to continuous draw? I used mine for the first time today and have alot of questions? Would someone be willing to give me some advice. My...

Do you know if he also refrigerated it? Any thoughts Dr. Perkins?

What if you used a vacuum bulk tank and kept the syrup under vacuum? Would this decrease fermentation?

Does anyone out there store their maple syrup in a bulk tank? We buy in several thousand gallons of syrup and are looking at installing 2 - 1000 gallon bulk tanks, that way we could empty the barrels...

Does anyone out there use a sand filter to filter their sap? If so could you share some insight on sizes of filters and pump size? We usually average about 120,000 to 140,000 gallons of sap per year....

Does it work?

Dr. Perkins, we did do soil samples and our PH is an average of 4.9.
Would you have any recommendations?

Mr Perkins, When you get a chance, and can dredge that stuff up I would appreciate it. Thanks

Mr. Perkins, several years ago I heard about a fertilizer blend called Maple grow. It was developed by McGill University back in the 90s to help the Canadian producers. Would you happen to know what...

Has anyone ever tried limeing their Sugarbush to help tree health and to increase sugar and sap production? If so would you be willing to share your ideas and results with me. In recent years we have...

Well we have called it quits too. I'm going to boil the pan out tomorrow for our maple weekend. Overall we didn't do too bad. Had 4200 taps and ended up with 1775 gallons of syrup. Most of it is...

Well I'll give a quick update on us. We boiled our 1st Jan 27th and have boiled 14 times total so far. We are at 1003,gallon so far. Sugar content has not been the best, but the new HC4 is doing a...

Yes, and it worked great!

Tapped 2800 last week before the blizzard hit. Waded snow on Monday and tues walking lines and shoveling, but got a little over a gallon per tap yesterday and last night. Made 49 gal of top end amber...

Well, I guess we are going to bite the bullet this week and go at it. RO is washed and ready to go as well as everything else. Weather looks good here for us starting next week around the 24th or...

Have you ever considered studying the flavor of syrup produced with high concentrate that was refrigerated right after being produced. Compared against the same syrup that was just hot packed into a...

If anyone has been trying to get a registration from our website, I apologize. the current on does not have any prices and some other stuff is labeled wrong. Please look for a new one in a couple of...

Registration forms are now available for the 2015 Pa state maple tour. It will only be a 1 day tour and will be hosted out of the New Centerville Fire hall in New Centerville Pa. Registration forms...

Registration packet are now available online. Visit www.somersetcountymaple.org for registration packets and more info. We also have write up available for anyone to share with other sugarmakers....