With the maple sugaring season in full swing, now's the time for Michigan residents to get a look at how maple sap is boiled and changed into maple syrup. Maple syrup makers across Michigan are ...

Maple syrup is one of those ingredients that has a lot of fans, and for good reason. It's tasty, sweet, and can be used for so much more than just pancakes and waffles. Maple syrup takes eggnog to the ...

University of Michigan researchers have found that maple syrup production processes have significant energy inputs and greenhouse gas emissions. The School for Environment and Sustainability published ...

The art of maple syrup production flows through generations of Dan Potter’s family history. His great-grandfather bought the family farm in rural Iowa in the late 1880s and cleared the land for ...

Kyle Branon measures a fresh batch of maple syrup with a densitometer at Branon Family Maple Orchards in Fairfield on Friday, December 20. A rare winter sap run led to the Branons producing syrup on ...

ROCKVILLE, Ind. — Tapping maple trees for sugar water and processing it to make syrup is an art that those in Parke County, Ind., celebrate. Because weather conditions must be just right, the folks ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It’s as much a Michigan tradition as playing euchre or using your hand as a map. We make maple syrup here, and this time of the year is typically the sweet spot for making the ...

It is one of the sweetest times of the year. Why? It is maple sugaring month. Although we think of maple as a fall flavor, this is the season when the hard work takes place at sugarhouses. The sap ...

State agriculture officials say some sugar-makers worry whether prolonged drought could impact maple syrup production.

That’s how it’s described by David Noonan, president of the Michigan Maple Syrup Association. More than 100,000 sap-producing sugar maples snapped under the weight of ice, he said. The state’s annual ...