western mass 2018

[WESTMAPLES]

its been awfully quiet around here, how is it going for everyone ?? i can`t be the only one wondering how others are doing, it has been a different season once again, sap flows and sugar content is all over the place, but thats sugarin` . ive talked with a few locals producers i know and they all seem to think everyone else is doing better than themselves ..... lets here what ya`ll have to say .

[johnpma]

Had a hard run during that warm up 2 weeks ago boiled off what we had. After the last storm things slowed down quite a bit. Collected and boiled off 55 or so gallons yesterday of 2% Have 2 gallons of finished syrup to bottle tonight everything in the woods is mostly dry Looking forward we may get a few warm days. Weekend high for us was 39 degrees not much happened some drips late afternoon that's about it

[PrimitiveOperation]

Haven’t been flooded with sap yet, but have been collecting 70-120 gallons of sap daily when the temps are right. Evaporator is real sweet and ready to push out more syrup.

[Bernie/MA]

My neghbors here in north central MA are getting real dark syrup. Is that the case everywhere? I don't boil amymore.

[bigschuss]

My problem now is that I have no way of getting my sap if/when it begins to flow again. There is just too much snow for my snowmobile. I either need to get out with my snowshoes and start packing down all my access trails or hope for a good rain to condense down the 4' of powder we've gotten in the past 10 days.

[bigschuss]

I'm in the NW corner at 2,000 ft. and like WESTMAPLES I had a hard run 2 or 3 weeks ago. Couldn't keep up with the sap, and I ended up making more syrup than I've even made that early in the season. I don't even normally tap until the 1st week of March on average. We now have 48" of new snow and another foot or so coming tomorrow...yeah, things have grinded to a halt. Buckets that I hung when the grass was showing are now just about buried as they hang on the tree. It's going to get good again though. Once all this snow melts and the temps. warm I am ready for another hard run.

[maple2]

our first boil was 2/21. We are almost at half a crop. Sugar has been 1.5 to 1.8. Not much lite syrup

[WESTMAPLES]

that last snow was something else everybody panicked, got 12in in my area of westfield and figured i would go out an open my bush at 620+ ft with dozer thinking there would be 18 in plus.... nope got there and was only about 6 in of snow on the ground go figure that. sap is coming in slow still but it gives me time to rework little things that have overlooked while trying to move forward, its only a matter of time right... before the sap starts pouring , then it will be the " what day is it.... " game till it slows

[johnpma]

We really got hit hard up our way. Thought that it would shut us down for awhile.....WRONG!! Stopped this morning and our totes which are burried were 3/4 full.......buckets hardly anything.........so hard to predict.

[johnpma]

Lots snow in the woods trees didn't do much this week but I grabbed 30 gallons or so