Hi, I've tapped all of the 225 maple trees, tapped 140 last spring. Hope we have a good season, we have to much snow in the wood. Bernard Le Bic Québec
Tapping in Québec
Hi, I've tapped all of the 225 maple trees, tapped 140 last spring. Hope we have a good season, we have to much snow in the wood. Bernard Le Bic Québec
Bernard,
It will be interesting to see when your season ends seeings how your getting such a late start because of all the snow. It's not much different here though. Boiled for the first time here yesterday.
1,200 taps on USFS land, 3x8 King w/Steamaway. Lapierre RO.
Hi, it's windy today and cold, +2 for tomorrow and +6 for saturday, hope the first sap run. Much warmer for next week. Here in Québec the season is late, tapped 23/03/07 last year. Hope the weather change! Bernard
Bernard,
Very windy here today with temps in the 20's. Wind chill was near 0. Tomorrow looks better and thru the weekend. Maybe it will run all night Friday. It's suppose to stay warm. The deep snow is really keeping the trees from good runs. It must be the same for you. Slow and steady makes for lighter syrup though.
1,200 taps on USFS land, 3x8 King w/Steamaway. Lapierre RO.
Hi, the sap run saturday, 55 gallon, monday, 85 gallon , yesterday, 45 gallon and today few drop. We collect tomorrow, we must have rain until next monday. I've boiled yesterday and today, I have a Dominion Grimm 2X5 boiler. Bernard in Québec
Bernard
I'm very interested to know how your season progresses.
It's in the news on radio and in newspapers in Toronto that there could be a big problem in Quebec this year. Most areas the trees are still frozen and real warm weather is coming fast and they fear the season will be over almost the same time it starts.
I hope you get a good run.
yes- very curious to see how the bigger producers in Quebec do this year...heard some stuff on the CBC that some of the producers are quite nervous about their season...bulk prices anyone?
Eric Johnson
Tucker Mountain Maple Co-op
1400 taps in 2013
2.5 x 8 CDL pellet arch and Smokey Lake pans
Lapierre 600 RO
Member of Andover/Salisbury Maplehaulics anonymous
www.tuckermtn.com
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Better buy all the bulk you can buy now if you need to buy any! we boiled for the first time yesterday 2.5 weeks behind where we normaly are we still have 3' plus of snow and it looks like the weathers only going to get warmer. i was talking to the largest producer in my area and he has been tapped since the first of march he only made about 300 gallons oh ya and he has 30,000 taps so thats not a real good season for him. i would think if the weather stays the way it is it going to be over soon but i will say the sap we boiled yesterday was the highest sugar content sap we have ever gotten.
shurken from 8500 to 2500 slowly growing hope to have 5000 this season 5x16 Lighting and a lot of fire wood
I watched a program on CBC last year ,about the Quebec maple syrup industry. Seems they have a supply management quota system and have
millions of pounds of syrup in storage. That might help the producers on
a bad year like this. They showed one producer who bypassed the co-operative and sold directly to a New Brunswick buyer.....his whole sugar
camp got burned to the ground.Does anybody have any more info on this?
120 buckets, and 18x48 Dom.Grimm pan, 14X24 preheater pan ;10gph
we watched the east coast news tonight and they say that New Brunswick is off 60% this year.
I'd have to say it was about that bad on our lot as well not nearly the sap flow we normally get and much too
much of it was buddy. The new evap has hoods and I didn't detect the odor until we were trying to bottle it and it
tasted *&^%
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