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OFFICIAL UNITED STATES

Maple Syrup
Almanac
2016
4TH EDITION

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HIGHLIGHTS SEASON
OF
THE

2016 maple industry at a glance. What people were talking about …

Massive crop
Both the United States and Quebec enjoyed record breaking crops this
season. The Quebec crop alone broke
its record by 23 percent. In the U.S.,
Vermont, New York and Massachusetts
all enjoyed their best state crops ever.
On the marketing side, open house
weekends were hampered by problematic scheduling. Easter fell in the
prime fourth week in March, so many
state associations pushed their open
houses into April, which ended up
being a freezing cold weekend in the
Northeast. Attendance was reportedly
down as a result.

CDL
LEADERS
Jean-Marie
Chabot
and Daniel
Lallane demonstrate the
company’s
popular
new line
of remote
monitoring
systems for
the woods,
pumphouse
and sugarhouse.

DESIGNER
Michael Apuan
CONTRIBUTORS
Betty Ann Lockhart
Don Lockhart
Deborah Jeanne
Sergeant
Barbara Lassonde
Blair Smith, NASS/USDA
ON THE COVER:
Grottoli’s Sugarhouse
in Middle Granville, N.Y.
on March 18
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Monitoring systems catch on
More and more sugarmakers were quickly adding revolutionary sugarbush monitoring systems
in their woods. The 2016 season saw the biggest usage yet of the rapidly advancing technology.
The systems can tell a sugarmaker exactly where a leak is located on a line, or if a tank is overflowing at a remote location, all on their smartphones. Suddenly, having precise information on
every aspect of an operation has become an essential tool in modern syrup making.
U.S. Maple Syrup Almanac

2016