Very Quiet in the Mountain State

[DrTimPerkins]

Interesting research. I assumed there was research going on with regard to climate change and maple production.
Do you know of any Southern state producers who have adopted the "fall to spring" tapping cycle?
On one hand this has the potential to greatly expand production, on the other having the season last for 4 months sounds exhausting! Keeping everything clean, etc.

This is not intended as a slight, but most production areas outside Vermont/Quebec and some other areas are just catching on to high yield techniques using high vacuum, proper tubing/vacuum installation and operation, and newer sanitation practices. That isn't because those areas can't have high yields, but simply because the knowledge base to transfer the information and practices necessary hasn't been there until quite recently. Some producers are learning fast though, and there are some people who are doing a really good job. Very frequently we hear "that can't be done here because of xxxx". I don't believe that. Eventually some producer comes along who does do all the right things and gets great results and the neighbors start realizing...gee...that is possible. Because of that delay, and because we aren't there, we haven't really been able to test this concept in those areas yet. We are only just starting to test it in the north to get some early indications of what the possibilities are.