Western Wisconsin

[motowbrowne]

The sap started earlier today. Nice when it only gets to 26-27 but it stays there for several hours. Looks like it ran in the ballpark of 1.5 gallons per tap today. I have good help tomorrow, and I'll have about 1000 gallons of sap to cook, plus whatever comes in during the day tomorrow. Hope to get going by 12.

[markcasper]

My one woods ran yesterday and today about 1.5 gallons per tap as well. Boiled for the first time this morning and had 3300 gallons to run through. My other woods is not doing very well, north or south side. Been saying all along its the frost and I certainly think that to be the case. My floor drain is froze up in my RO room and that has only happened one other time in the past 10 years. The syrup was between medium and light as a good portion was a week old. Have about 2000 gallons from yesterday and today that will be gone tomorrow. Had one Leader stubby pop out last night. Sure not thrilled about this issue! My vacuum was at 19" today so I went for a walk.

My north side has only yielded about a gallon per tap in the last week. Surprising as well, the north side is my lowest sugar content which is not normal. It has always been the highest % out of any of my vacumm woods, This would suggest the trees that furnish the sweetest sap are not running yet?

[Cody]

Our one woods with 300+ trees produced 600 gallons yesterday.Other woods across road more north slope,700 trees produced 600 gallons,it is allot colder in that woods.

[Cody]

Be nice if we could get some sunshine,and nights not down in the teens.Allot of snow in woods yet.Trees are running but slow.Manage to get 500-600 gallons of sap/day last two days.

[motowbrowne]

Be nice if we could get some sunshine,and nights not down in the teens.Allot of snow in woods yet.Trees are running but slow.Manage to get 500-600 gallons of sap/day last two days.

Agreed. The sap wants to run, but when it doesn't start until 2, there isn't much time for the gallons to add up.

[markcasper]

Agreed. The sap wants to run, but when it doesn't start until 2, there isn't much time for the gallons to add up.

You guys got it, things don't thaw out until 1 or 2 and then you only have 5-6 hours of run time. They do run hard however, well, not the north side. Maybe got a gallon per tap on those total so far. Syrup has been border line between light and medium. Pretty happy thus far.

[motowbrowne]

Looks like yesterday was pretty good here. I was out and about all day, so I didn't make it to the woods. Found my 250 gallon tank full to the brim about 20 minutes ago. It's running hard right now, so some of that was from today. Very happy though.

[Boomer]

I boiled down 80 gallons of sap Saturday (3/24) and got 2+ gallons of dark syrup. Took about 13 hours but it was worth it. And collected another 30+ gallons of sap yesterday.

[motowbrowne]

Boiled yesterday afternoon for the third time so far this year. It ran until well after dark. Started early again today but it really dropped off when the rain moved in. Hopefully it'll pick back up tomorrow when the weather improves. My neighbor dropped off by 150 gallons of sap, so between that and what I've collected since I pumped at 5pm yesterday I should have enough to cook again for 3-4 hours tomorrow afternoon.

[markcasper]

North side decided to start running better yesterday, only about 40-50%, but its a start. The sugar on that went up to 3.3% which is a good sign. Trees ran pretty decent yesterday, but no huge huge run.