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Maple Syrup Industry Feels the Heat of Global Warming
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Vermont Maple Syrup Industry Feels Heat
Global warming is beginning to take a toll on Vermont s signature product -- maple syrup -- and the
farmers and their families who produce it.
Tim Branon, the...
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Maple Syrup Industry Feels the Heat of Global Warming
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Vermont Maple Syrup Industry Feels Heat
Global warming is beginning to take a toll on Vermont s signature product -- maple syrup -- and the
farmers and their families who produce it.
Tim Branon, the eldest brother of an extended family that has made syrup for five generations inside
the sugar house over a boiling process.
But know they are doing in a gleaming stainless steel
extractor made in nearby Rutland.
It boils the sap, removing moisture and concentrating the maple
sugar.
He says he can show a production of 14,000 gallons of syrup this year.
His brother is incharge
of the farm.
Tim is very well known of the preparation and he is the only person who opens the tap.
"It s totally changed," said Tom.
"In the 50s, 60s and even 70s we tapped by hand and used buckets,
gathering by hand and using horse-drawn sleighs with wood fired evaporators.
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Tim and his wife spends most of the time tramping through the snow-covered
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