An Initial Assessment of the Frequency of Maple Crop Failure in the U.S.
Some seasons sometimes produce a bountiful crop of maple syrup. In other years producers are considerably less lucky. Periodic failures of the maple crop happen.
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Characterizing maple sap flows
Individual sap flow events are highly variable and dynamic, ranging from slow, weeping flows that last for days to short bursts of high flow that last for only a few hours.
Maple Management
These Maple Management pages include a variety of educational resources related to business for current maple producers, prospective maple producers, and forest land managers. Includes annual cost of production analyses, legal resources, business resources, rental and pricing tips, and more.
Quality control guide cards
These handy cards provide checklists for color, clarity, density, and flavor, with notes on why syrup may not measure up to standards.
Sugarbush Management and Chainsaw Safety
Maple production requires sugarmakers possess a diverse set of skills in order to tend the forest resource and maintain a productive sap collection system. Maintaining a healthy, diverse sugarbush that maximizes its growth potential requires periodic vegetation management activity. Also known as thinning, vegetation management is the process of reducing competition for light, water and nutrients of crop trees. Felling trees is the key activity in vegetation management and may be done by logging professionals in support of formal forest management plan objectives or by the sugarmaker or landowner on an as needed basis and including response to extreme weather events.
Maple Statistics
Annual data on US maple production.
Building Your Own Reverse Osmosis Machine
Tips for building a homemade reverse osmisis machine.
Sap Flow, Wounding, & Compartmentalization in Maple
How does a tree respond to the wound created by a taphole, and what does that mean for future sap production?
Sap flow, wounding and compartmentalization in maple
Explains how sap flows in trees and the impact that tapping has on subsequent years’ sap flow.
Sustainable Tapping
How to tap trees for long-term forest health and sustainable production.