As a result of the unseasonably warm temperatures, Wisconsin maple syrup producers are rushing out to tap trees as much as two months early. Here's what that means for production this year and what ...

All Wisconsin crops are impacted by the weather, and that includes maple syrup. Maple sap collection involves drilling into mature trees, with modern methods like vacuum systems and pipeline networks ...

TOWN OF MANITOWOC, Wis. (WLUK) -- For nearly eight decades, tapping maple trees has signified the beginning of spring in Manitowoc County. Jesse Wagner, owner of Inthewoods Sugar Bush in Manitowoc ...

DEERBROOK (AP) — Jeremy Solin doesn't need a jacket right now on his family farm in northern Wisconsin. There's no snow blanketing the dead leaves in the grove of sugar maples. There, pails already ...

Climate change is affecting the maple syrup industry, causing the season to start earlier and impacting sap production. Wisconsin ranks fourth in the nation in maple syrup production, producing ...

Ruth Gerber Rupp was vacationing with her husband in Texas when she had to abruptly return home because of unseasonably warm weather in Wisconsin. Rupp, the founder of Maple Farmers Network, cut her ...

WISCONSIN (AP) — This year’s warmer winter temperatures have allowed some maple syrup producers across the U.S. to begin tapping their trees as much as two months early. In Wisconsin, the ...

SEASON IS TAPPING INTO TRADITION IN SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. WEATHERWATCH 12 METEOROLOGIST GINO RECCHIA EXPLAINS WHY THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME OF THE YEAR TO TAP SIRUP. AND MAPLE SAP DRIPS FROM A TAP ON ...

The Martins began tapping in January, much earlier than the traditional sugaring season start. Warming winters have shifted the timing and length of maple sugaring season in Wisconsin, the ...

MERRILL, Wis. (WSAW) - It might not feel like it outside right now, but maple syrup season has started, and farms in Merrill are hard at work. Maple Hollow has been producing pure Wisconsin gourmet ...

FRANKLIN – About a dozen fifth-grade students crowded around Michael DeMain and a 175-year-old maple tree in the forest preserve surrounding the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin, eager to collect sap on ...