The Northern New York Agricultural Development Program has posted the results of its latest maple research project focused on increasing sap yields and profitability for regional maple producers.
From 2011-2013, project leaders Northern New York Maple Specialist Michael Farrell, director of the Cornell Uihlein Maple Research Forest at Lake Placid, NY, and retired Cornell Maple Program Director Brian Chabot evaluated the effectiveness of a relatively inexpensive changeout of equipment to improve sap gain in three Northern New York sugarbushes.
In one 3,000-tap research area at the Parker Family Maple Farm in West Chazy, old spouts and droplines were utilized as a control method in the first-year of the research study. The data analysis showed more than $12,000 in potential profit from unrealized sap yield in that sugarbush area in 2011.
Learn what happened in 2012 with new spouts and droplines in that same sugarbush. . .