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Maple syrup producers benefiting from weather swings
Mar 13, 2017, 11:47 AM
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A maple syrup producer says recent warm ups and cool downs have been good for tapping maple trees.
Joe Woods with the Michigan Maple Syrup Association tells Brownfield producers in northern Michigan started tapping trees in mid-February which is earlier than normal. “A normal season would run approximately for this year from March 1st to about April 15th. Farther north it’s going to shift a little later and farther south it will shift a little earlier.”
He says when the weather warms up for several days, production and sugar content slows.
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