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Dave Kemp, director for the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association and owner of D & D Maple Supplies in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, expects his annual “working vacation” to be consumed with questions over the impact of the Trump administration’s imposition of 25% tariffs on Canada will have on northern New England’s maple syrup industry.
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The soil in which maple trees grow makes a difference in how much maple syrup can be produced and even how it tastes.
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We go to Peterborough to get tips from one maple syrup expert.
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With consistently less snow and higher temperatures, sugarmaking season is coming earlier and lasting shorter.
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“We’re a small producer, so any help we can get certainly helps," one local sugar house operator said. "We’ve never operated in the green, we’re always in the red."
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For some, maple sugaring is a perennial ritual, painstakingly completed as we usher out the bitter wisps of winter, and embrace balmier, brighter days of early spring.
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A mild winter season has kickstarted syrup production weeks ahead of schedule.
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The problem for southern Maine and New England producers is erratic winter weather and shortening sap season.
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Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are studying new ways to make syrup out of the northern forest -- not from maple trees, but from beeches,…
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Scientists at the University of New Hampshire are studying ways to tap trees and make syrup with species other than maples, in hopes of developing new…