Saturday, March 16, 2013

Wait, what?: Maple syrup season "getting a late start this year, by about a few weeks in some parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin"

Success Of Maple Syrup Season In Limbo « CBS Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – If you’re getting tired of waiting for spring, so are the people who tap maple syrup.

The syrup season is getting a late start this year, by about a few weeks in some parts of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
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Timothy D. Perkins, Ph.D., director of the University of Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Center, testified before Congress in 2007, that maple syrup season starts approximately 8 days earlier than it did 40 years ago

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