Arrived in Wisconsin about 12:30 PM.\u00a0 Back to farmhouse by 2:30 PM.\u00a0 No urgency this year as the weather is still cold.\u00a0 A snow storm moved through earlier in the week dropping 12\u201d of snow.\u00a0 About 60\u201d for the winter which is about normal.\u00a0 And there was sub-zero weather for a week in January.\u00a0 We hope it will help for the season, but we have to accept whatever Mother Nature gives us.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Producers out East were making syrup in January.\u00a0 Using the new check-valve spouts they can tap very early and and still avoid the build up of bacteria that closes the tap hole.\u00a0 As climate change continues to impact maple production these types of technologies will be necessary to get any type of crop.<\/p>\n
We have a lot of things to get ready.\u00a0\u00a0 The addition for the R\/O is finished.\u00a0\u00a0 The electrical is finished.\u00a0 Those we big items.\u00a0 A new smoke stack is ready and just needs to be picked up and installed.<\/p>\n
But we have to learn the drive the R\/O.\u00a0\u00a0 In theory we feed in sap and then under pressure its separated into two streams: water and sugar concentrate.\u00a0 But there are a lot of pumps and hoses to connect to get the flow through the machine correct.\u00a0 And that is what we need to figure out.<\/p>\n
The weather is forecast to be cold for the next five days.\u00a0 We hope by Monday we can start tapping so we are ready when the weather breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arrived in Wisconsin about 12:30 PM.\u00a0 Back to farmhouse by 2:30 PM.\u00a0 No urgency this year as the weather is still cold.\u00a0 A snow storm moved through earlier in the week dropping 12\u201d of snow.\u00a0 About 60\u201d for the winter which is about normal.\u00a0 And there was sub-zero weather for a week in January.\u00a0 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-season96"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}