Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[blissville maples]

We're a bit colder than you. Sap didn't run on Thurs much, and didn't really open up well until Friday afternoon. Ran well since then though, so about 1.7 gal of sap per tap overnight. Didn't quite hit 32 deg F at the sugarhouse, but the branches probably froze up in at least some places of the bush and slowed down some. Starting to come in again well now.

We're at about 43% of a 0.5 gal/tap crop for sap totals...but less than that for syrup since we've got about 900 gal of 32 Brix concentrate sitting in the bulk tanks waiting to be boiled.

Looking like a good week for sap coming up. Good luck to all the maple producers out there.

Goldilocks zone at 550' here!! We hit .34 gpt yesterday 1866 gals on 5400 taps.. Niter is horrible this year, but flavor has been outstanding!! Going to be scrounging up barrels soon!

Dr Tim do you guys have issues on some mornings (seems to be on a heavy run when it freezes fairly quickly) where when it starts to thaw the Frozen slushy sap piles up at a y or even a saddle? I do know the difference between a leak causing this and maybe a main line at 2-3% grade. It drives me nuts when you have a 2-ft slush plug and all the taps behind it are running! Sometimes I go out and massage them out with the torch on the cooler 35 36° days where it will never thaw unless you do.

I feel like my dry line needs to be connected every hundred feet to the wet lines. I have done this on most mornings this year and I think it has a little bit to do with my higher volumes this year