Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Wednesday, March 13, 2019, photo, Ruth Goodrich of Goodrich's Maple Farm in Danville, Vt., holds squirrel-damaged maple ...

With the weirdly cold spring changing normal production schedules, maple syrup producers have had a rough season. But they have a new advantage, too. Instead of relying on buckets attached to trees to ...

LAKE PLACID — The latest results of maple research from the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) may suggest a possible advantage of using quarter-inch tubing for sap collection ...

DANVILLE, Vt. (AP) -- Maple syrup producers have more than the weather to worry about. Frenetic squirrels are chomping on equipment, crimping the flow of sap at some operations. Damage from wildlife — ...

DANVILLE, Vt. – Maple syrup producers have more than the weather to worry about. Frenetic squirrels are chomping on equipment, crimping the flow of sap at some operations. Damage from wildlife — deer, ...

Ruth Goodrich of Goodrich’s Maple Farm in Danville, Vt., holds squirrel-damaged maple sap tubing (right) and new tubing (left) in the farm’s equipment shop. Credit: AP Sign up for the Concord ...