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Article: Maple producers go with the flow, or the lack of it.
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- Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2005
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Byline: M.B. Pell
Apr. 11--The Burnham family usually makes about 600 gallons of maple syrup a year, but this season a long cold winter and a warm early spring have cut production down to 200 gallons and they are not alone.
"It hasn't been good statewide," said Robert J. Burnham, Adams Center, of Burnham's Pure Maple Syrup. "For the amount of syrup we've made it's been very slow. We've had about a third of our normal crop."
Cold weather early in the season followed by warm temperatures means sugarers will end up with half to two-thirds of their normal crops this season, said Henry Marckres of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. Freezing nights ...