Maple sap collection can still be good if weather co-operates | SaltWire

While the weather this winter hasn’t been ideal for many crops, a maple syrup producer says that as long as conditions play out like they should from here on, production shouldn’t be hurt this year. | SaltWire

| Posted: Feb. 15, 2023, 4:36 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 15, 2023, 4:36 p.m. | 2 Min Read

Chris Hutchinson of Hutchinson Acres in Lake Paul, Kings County said what is needed for good production is cold nights below freezing to “shock” the tree and make sap flow up from the roots, and then warm temperatures above freezing the next day to make the sap flow through the taps.“We’ve been struggling to get our taps in because of the temperature being above freezing,” Hutchinson said.

Temperatures in January were flat, he said. There were no up or down fluctuations between night and day, and that also meant the trees didn’t harden against the effects of the cold. When the polar vortex came through the province a week and a half ago, it popped out 40 per cent of taps that were already in the trees because the wood froze and expanded.

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