2020 season

[SDdave]

You are not to late! I'm sitting on 6 gallons so far on the season. Trees have been pumping out 3+%. The wind yesterday was horrible, about half of the taps where flopping in the breeze today. Ugh. Its fun though, right?!?

SDdave

[Islander]

Planning the first boil on the new rig today. Tapped 30 last weekend with 40 gallons in the tank so it will be a shorter day than we're used to.

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[Keitha333]

Looks like you did a fine job on your new evaporator! Best of luck! Sap was flowing here today!

[ChaskaSap]

The warm weather is nice but the taps have shut down. Forecast looks better for dripping on Monday.

[DocsMapleSyrup]

Just tapped in today. Nice run. We'll see how the season goes. Good luck to everyone!

[RileySugarbush]

Strange Chaska, we must be close and we had a great run today, right up until sundown. 500 gallons to boil tomorrow!

[Lano75]

Kaiser Farms is in the mix! Tapped 71 on gravity last Monday and left for a trip Tuesday. Friday night we boiled down 220 gallons with one draw. Yesterday we boiled down another 102 gallons and made about 3 gallons of syrup. We also tapped our remaining trees 32 bringing the total for this year to 103 taps. Looking like another 50 to cook tonight!

[Jeeves]

We've done maple for the last 2 + decades. The last 5-6 years we have been focused on black walnut. We are on the south side of the
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and have a few neighbors that also tap maples. The Arb also taps 300 to 400 maple trees every year
and a few black walnuts.

This year has been a true puzzle. None of us within our 2 mile radius have experienced much flow at all this year to date including the Arb.
Most of us have been tapped for 1 to 2 weeks. Maple and black walnut have both been meager to say the least. Hopefully this will change.

On the bright side, the sap we have processed has been relatively high sugar content (3.1%). Oh well, fingers crossed.

Good luck to everyone and best of all, Jeeves

[ChaskaSap]

Hey Jeeves
I’m a few miles south of you just off of 212 & 41 and with the exception of this weekend and the cold spell last week I’ve had pretty good luck. My 29 taps have produce 120 gallons thus far. My trees are all maples. Looks like really good forecast the next couple of weeks....hoping those walnuts start up soon for ya.

[RileySugarbush]

We are close, just about 5 miles east of that Arboretum on Riley Lake. Big flow the last couple days. We boiled down 500 gallons today to 15 gallons of syrup. Great season so far!