A handful of producers have boiled maple syrup from sugar
bushes in Southwestern Ontario when temperatures rose as high as five degrees
last week.
But the return of the deep freeze has put the season on hold
again.
Snow is so deep in the Haliburton area that producers who
normally work with lines at chest height are having to stoop down and sometimes
even dig them out of the snow, reports Todd Leuty, agroforestry specialist for
the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Leuty said many producers were busy tapping trees last week,
but with the return of extremely low temperatures this week, trunks are frozen
and ought not be tapped because of the damage that would cause.
