Northern Wisconsin. 2017

[Jeff E]

Yeah, my production is way down. Old tap holes I think for me. I put mine in late Feb, early March.
getting about 1/2 G per tap yesterday. Thought it would be double, triple that.

It is what it is....the moto of old sappers.

[G263]

Collected only 20 gallons since 4-14. Nested the 20 in the shade in a snowbank to hold it for the final boil next week. Hoping for a better collection this upcoming week.

[Jeff E]

Now it’s about a quart per tap on what seems like a good day. North slopes and valleys still have 15” of snow.
I will hang around and see what we get for a few day. Plenty of time to clean the syrup pan!

[Bgreisch]

This past weekend collected 60 gallons and made about 1.5 gal of syrup. If I would not of added 5 more taps a few weeks ago to the 17 I tapped beginning of march I would not of had as much the past couple weeks. The old taps are still flowing but not at the pace the new ones are. I made more syrup in the past 2 weeks than I did all of march. We will see what we get yet this week probably not much but will be calling it a season and pulling the taps next weekend.

2017 - 7 taps 1.5 gallons
2018 - 22 taps so far 3.5 gallons.

[TwoSaps2]

Collected about 100 gallons on about 60 taps this past weekend. They were still flowing, but pulled all the gear. Called it a season. Ended with about 7.5 gallons

[Joe Bob]

Between 4/15 and 4/20 I got about 110 gallons of sap from 50 taps. I collected on Saturday morning and spent the rest of the day and Sunday boiling. A few of my maples that are out in the open have buds that look close to opening. I considered pulling the bags from those but will see how they look when I return next weekend.

A lot of my forest trees barely have buds and there is still 12"-14" of snow on the ground. The trees were running strong this past weekend. The forecast has a couple of lows below freezing this week so I think I will have enough to work with next weekend. That will be the end of the season for me.