Alternative fuels for evaporators
Wood chips, wood pellets, and used vegetable oil can all be used to fire properly adapted evaporators. Each has advantages and challenges.
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Invaders in the sugarbush
Invasive exotic plants are becoming more prevalent and can have a negative impact on sugarbushes. Maple producers need to know how to identify and eradicate invasives.
Tapping red maple
Sugarmakers should consider tapping red maples to supplement sap production from sugar maples.
Maples under pressure
How sap pressure and flow interacts in maple trees during the sugaring season.
What does a taphole do to a tree?
Tapping trees creates a wound that the trees are usually able to heal. But what is the impact of tapping on trees?
Sugarmakers as teachers
One way that maple producers can gain useful information is by attending the education programs put on by Extension in conjuction with county and state maple organizations, where speakers include not just university and government specialists, but also sugarmakers who share their knowledge and experience.
What does it really cost to produce that gallon of maple syrup?
A guide to using available Excel spreadsheets to determine profitability and consider the value of altering management practices.
Maple sugaring budgeting worksheets
An Excel spreadsheet that can be used to determine profitability and project the impact of altering management practices.
Maple Sugaring in Your Backyard
A one-page beginners guide to sugaring
Effects of Moisture and Fertilizers on Sugar Maple Seedling Growth
Two ways to help satisfy the need for more high-quality sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum Marsh.) are by establishing plantations and by supplementing natural regeneration. To gain basic knowledge of seedling requirements for this species we studied the effects of soil moisture and nutrient levels on the growth of sugar maple seedlings in their first 3 years.