Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/10/2008 8:11:43 AM PDT by stan_sipple
SKOWHEGAN, Maine --Some Maine syrup producers say the season is off to a late start with delays caused by cold weather and taps and tubing hidden by snow in northern Maine. Bob Moore of Bob's Sugar House is busy boiling sap this week, but he'd be a lot busier if he could tap all of his trees. He said at least 75 percent of his 5,000 trees are unreachable. "I have trees that still have 3 feet of snow around them," he said. "It's not looking good right now." Maine's maple syrup production can start anytime between mid-February and late March. But like most agriculture ventures, the season is subject to the whims of the weather. "As usual, for some folks, especially in the far south of the state, sugaring season is over," said Kathy Hopkins, a maple expert with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Skowhegan. "But I doubt they'll be done tapping in The County until June," she said in joking reference to the state's northernmost county, Aroostook. "In some places, they just can't get to their trees and all their tubing is buried under snow." Freezing temperatures at night and daytime temperatures in the 40s are ideal. If it's any colder than that, then the sap won't flow. If the temperature shoots up to the mid-50s, then than won't work, either. Eric Ellis of Maine Maple Products of Madison, a company that taps 50,000 trees in northern Somerset County, said the season in the north country hasn't even begun. "It's a week to 10 days late," he said. Maine's maple syrup production -- a $7.2 million industry -- is coming off of several years of mediocre production. In 2005, Maine produced 265,000 gallons, well below previous years. In 2007, that slipped even further, to 225,000 gallons.
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Ice Age ping... .Can I get my nobel prize now...
“AL GORE PRAYED ON OUR FEARS.........”
Isn’t it Ironic....
What are they talking about? Late winter cold? I thought everything was melting and we’re all gonna die?
...and PREYED on our fears also.......
They could install electric blankets on the trees........
Algore will issue a statement shortly to explain how this is also caused by global warming.
Stand by.
Ping
Caused by Global Warming, no doubt
thats what I meant to type.....lol
I was going to make my weekly foray into town today, but it’s snowing like a demon and the roads are in the category of ‘bad.’
‘Gore explains syrup taps to green saps’
No maple syrup for your pancakes Algore!! All your boysenberry are belong to us!
GOre: It’s a Republican coverup. They stole the election, and now they’re stealing my thunder.
Someone will find a way to blame it on “global warming”.
Well that's all been explained. Didn't you see "The Day After Tomorrow"?
A rise in ocean temperatures of as little as 2 degrees will cause super-cold air to descend from on high and freeze everything...including concrete...solid. Simple.
One tree, one tap, I got 11 gallons of sap. After boiling down, I have now one quart of syrup - best I've ever had.
But here is the global-warming aspect:
I started with a white-fuel camping stove... until I realized I was basically trading a few gallons of white fuel for a much lesser quantity of maple syrup. Once I switched to firewood, it was a breeze.
Always happy to add my contributions to global warming!
But will it freeze steel? Everybody KNOWS that cold can't freeze steel!
Maple syrup to reach record highs of $50 a gallon!
“I have trees that still have 3 feet of snow around them,”
Bushs fault.
Up in the Berkshires, if the snow was too deep, the tree farmers would ride in on snowmobiles, with a shovel tied to the back to get through the taller drifts. These producers must be city transplants: “waah, I can’t dig out my trees to get to the pre-run sap lines. Snowmobile? What’s that?”
Globull warming? Globull warming? Globull warming?
Oh...yeah! There is no cold low enough that can't be reached by The Almighty god of the Church of Global Warming!
Mere steel? Harumph. Peanuts to Global Warming.
Maybe we need to build more syrup.............refineries!
The only answer is a $30.00 per gallon subsidy to keep the bio-maple syrup industry profitable and reduce foreign imports of this important resource.
The Chinese company, The Chinchow Heavey Industries Synthetic Maine Maple Syrup and Creosote Cough Drop Co. must be kept from buying up the distressed syrup producers!
hurricanes caused by global warming
drought in the south due to no hurricanes caused by global warming
what isnt the fault of global warming?
watch out for the toxic lead in the artificial maple coloring
Well...there's...uh...erm...uh...
Hmmmm...
Where I grew up in Ohio, I helped my family friends do maple syrup every year. Hand tap the trees, put in the spigot, hang a bucket...collect as needed. We used a 4x4 tractor pulling a wagon with a vat on it. I recall times when the snow was deep...just meant you worked harder. It got boiled down in an old firewood boiler with “lanes” that got progressively thicker. I always liked drinking the just barely boiled down sap. Was like very sweet water.
That’s because the sap isn’t collected in buckets anymore, it’s collected through a maze of tubes that run from the tree to the collection house. Those tubes are buried under snow, and thus can’t be serviced to work properly.
sounds like a job “Americans wont do anymore.” (sarc)
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