What are NH sugar makers up to

[Asa Matras]

Ya I held fridays back and boiled raw sap saturday. Sunday I sqeezed a bit in the morning then finished on raw sap. I expected a better run sunday didn't get much actually. Ran good sunday night into monday. You guys have enough?

I'm glad it ran on Fri. for you, didnt here. Ya we saved since thursday and ro'd it a little. Made it to 5pm on Sunday

[Dill]

Alden boiling raw sap sucks!

I'd actually rather boil raw or weak concentrate on open house days. I need to make it last and I have a habit of getting distracted by questions. Last night I had 50 people in the sugarhouse on a 4H tour and I'm glad I didn't get the rig really going til after they left cause I made 2 huge draws that wouldn't have been fun with that many people there.

[NhShaun]

Well the sap finally started running here as well. Currently have about 350gal stored and all my collection containers are full or overflowing from yesterday. Going to be a long weekend boiling almost 500 gal of raw sap on my flat pans! Hope everyone else is caught up. Doesn't look like another run here til Monday or Tuesday

[n8hutch]

I'm still convinced that half of my trees haven't thawed, I've had some lack luster sap flows since sundays decent one. I've made 20 gallons to date and I have got maybe 300 gallons in the woods tank.

[Russell Lampron]

I had 800 gallons for last nights boil and got another 420 in the bulk tank now to boil tomorrow night. I'm at 75 gallons and counting. It's going to be warm and rainy this weekend but the forecast looks pretty good for next week.

[RedMapleCreek]

My red maples continue to be very stingy with their sap. Last Sunday was my best run and that was less than 0.4 gal/tap. Still almost 2 ft of snow in the woods. May get an unforecast freeze tonight, it's 34 at 9PM. If so, hope for a bit of a run tomorrow.

[white mt]

So far 2019 in my area has Ben kind of a dud. Lots of snow still in the woods very marginal flow of sap . The warm up shut it off completely. Not sure what to make of this season other than it’s the season that wasn’t. Some guys haven’t even really started boiling yet hear.

[n8hutch]

So far 2019 in my area has Ben kind of a dud. Lots of snow still in the woods very marginal flow of sap . The warm up shut it off completely. Not sure what to make of this season other than it’s the season that wasn’t. Some guys haven’t even really started boiling yet hear.

I couldn't have said it better myself, I've got 700 taps in as of today and I've made 35 gallons of syrup, if the weather doesn't hold for 3 weeks than in screwed. The guys north of here have made next to nothing with the exception of guys who are in areas that just don't seem to get alot of snow.

My woods looks like it has 3 weeks left, my calendar says that we have 2. Only time will tell.

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

We’re in the same boat in western Maine. It all depends on whether or not we get the cold nights in April. You never know.

[Dill]

The weather kept the customer flow down today. We did decently yesterday. The good news is the vac saved the weekend cause I had enough sap to boil both days was even able to squeeze a bit of water out.
Looks like we've got some freezes coming and hopefully a full week of sugaring left. Did a crazy trip over to western NH the other day. My gear pump died thursday night and I had to gravity filter which sucked. Went to bellows falls, Bascoms and picked some extra syrup pans up in Harrisville man it was quite the frost heaved excursion.