![]() "A snowstorm, similar to what we're having now, is always nice because it resets the trees so they think it's wintertime, and we can get more sap out of the tree, prolong the season," he said at his farm, Snyder Heritage Farms, on Friday morning. Ideal weather for maple syrup production is a freezing-thawing cycle, with temperatures dipping to -5 C overnight and reaching a daytime high of 5 C. ![]() He says the sap they're getting from the trees was produced last summer, so they're harvesting the stored sugar. It allows producers to do maintenance work ahead of the season and then basically when the season gets started, which it has, you just go around the you tap your trees then," said Kevin Snyder, president of the Waterloo Wellington chapter of the Ontario Maple Producers. "With the pipeline system, most of those pipelines are in the forest all year round. ![]() Instead, you'll see plastic lines going from tree to tree. With the slightly warmer weather in mid-February, some maple syrup producers in Waterloo region have started tapping their trees.īut there aren't many buckets attached to trees in sugar bushes in the region. ![]()
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