Prolonged Winter Good for Wisconsin's Maple Syrup
Sunday, June 16th, 2019 -- 5:46 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -The prolonged winter season was good for one thing this year: maple syrup production.According to the latest figures from the Wisconsin Ag Statistics Service, maple producers cooked 270,000 gallons of syrup this spring, up 45,000 gallons from 2018. The number of taps also increased by 50,000 this year to 800,000. Newly released figures show that yield was 0.338 gallons per tap, above the 0.300 gallons per tap a season earlier. Last year, the average price Wisconsin maple producers received was $32.40 per gallon, up $1.00 from a year ago.
The 2019 Wisconsin maple syrup season began on March 1--11 days later than in 2018. The season ended on April 30, which is three days sooner than last year's final day. Wisconsin ranks fourth nationally for maple syrup production, only trailing Vermont, New York and Maine.
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