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Although the effects of proper forestry often take a while to manifest, it is worthwhile to manage a sugar bush according to Arron Wightman and Peter Smallidge with Cornell University’s Maple Program.
Campbell’s Mapleland Farms, set atop a beautiful Washington County ridgeline with views into Vermont, has a diverse marketing strategy that keeps syrup flowing to some of America’s largest urban centers.
Maple production research by the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program is helping New York maple producers evaluate and add opportunities to increase sap and syrup production. The northern New York maple industry has grown from a $3.25 million annual industry in 2008 to an estimated $10-plus million industry with room yet to grow.
For the New York State Maple Producers Association, Maple Weekend is a sweet treat for maple producers as they showcase their operations, products and the industry. This year, the event was canceled due to COVID-19.
Maple season is now in full swing in Somerset County and producers are finding that the warm weather is bringing a banner year.
Jim Walizer planted his first riparian buffer two decades ago and has been a conservationist and clean stream advocate ever since.
The 2019 Vermont maple syrup production totaled 2.07 million gallons, up 7% from the previous year, according to King Whetstone, regional director of the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Northeastern Regional Field Office. Vermont remains the top producing state in the nation.
This year at the Farm Show, Emerick’s Pure Maple Products took home a first prize in the category of “very dark”; two second-place prizes, one in “quarts” and one in “golden”; and a fourth-place award in “dark.”
Nearly 400 maple producers took time out from tapping trees earlier this month to attend the Vermont Maple Conferences, held annually in Brattleboro and Hyde Park.