While the sap of the hybrid trees has a lower sugar content than sugar maples, technology improvements have increased the yield from the hybrids. Currently, Ohio maple syrup producers tap red and ...

European settlers in the Northeast had learned how to sugar from the indigenous population, who for untold ages had been tapping maple trees and boiling down the sap to distill its sugary goodness.

Climate change could put maple syrup making at risk if extreme weather and temperature changes harm the trees that produce ...

One of the oldest crops in North America was being harvested this month a few miles up the Minnesota River from New Ulm. Fred ...

RELATED: ‘Similar to a hurricane:’ 10s of thousands still without power as utility rebuilds grid after ice storm He described a scene of devastation: The tops of sugar maple trees were broken ...