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Northshore October 2025
“Massachusetts sugarmakers were wondering if spring would ever come, and when it finally did they made the most of it,” says Massachusetts Maple Producers Association (MMPA) coordinator Winton Pitcoff. According to the MMPA, maple producers manufactured 75,000 gallons of syrup during the sugaring season this year, which runs from late February to early April most years, although this winter was so harsh that sap did not begin to run until March. Nationally, syrup production was up by 6 percent, but in Massachusetts it increased by 23 percent from 2014. The sap from the 310,000 taps set in maple trees around the state helped mak
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