Compared with years passed, our content was down. Our normal sugar content puts us in the 40-48gal to 1, this season it was 66-67 to 1. it goes down in the book, and i'll compare again next season. I guess you really need a weather station in each bush, recording sunlight, rainfall, temperature, and logging it all, then pop that into a database with the % sugar of every load you haul in. then maybe you could see a pattern, add in mast years, locust emergence, anything that might affect your area....but what i have seen it is highly localized just an hour west of me they are having a great year. my 2 cents, lol
2024 - 57 Gallons - Short season, many and varied problems remedied in short order! - No buckets!
2023 - 38 Gallons - RO broke, Buckets didn't run, rebuilt vacuum pump mid-season, still made good syrup!
2022 - 52 Gallons - DIY RO, 50% less fuel, no late nights in the shack!
2021 - 48 Gallons - new pans, new arch, lots of new taps and tubing
2020 - 32 Gallons
2019 - 27 Gallons