Prolonged mild conditions last month had maple syrup producers in southern Ontario tapping trees for sap in early February -- significantly earlier than when tapping season has historically begun in early to mid-March. A cold spell last week then forced a pause on the early start to operations.
"They've increased in the frequency we've had them and also the length of time that we stay warm, so it's harder for us to estimate when we should be tapping." Producers have also had to deal with increasingly frequent windstorms that uproot maple trees, as well as invasive pests that can spread with rising temperatures. An infestation of tent caterpillars in 2018 left some Ontario producers with 30 per cent less syrup than the year before.
Paul Renaud, who owns a sugar bush in Lanark Highlands, has been working with the maple syrup producers association to get producers to switch to carbon-neutral practices by making their sap evaporators more efficient. Efficient operations could encourage producers to tap more trees, making it unlikely for those trees to be cut down and therefore allowing more carbon to be stored in forests, he added.
Climate change is having a substantial effect on the maple syrup industry, Renaud said, and extreme weather events like windstorms can have devastating consequences. If a maple tree is blown over, it can take 40 years to grow another tree to the size required for tapping, he said.
You mean weather variations?
I wholeheartedly disagree it’s Climate Change, it’s now a Climate Emergency. God help those maple syrup producers, the trees will not have sap anymore - this means leaves won’t grow and there will be no shade this summer. Run for your lives!
PeePee is going to be upset with Doug Ford's folks.
Like it's preposterous that anyone would listen to maple syrup producers about reducing carbon emissions, however I could see a desperate dying pathetic fake news TV station doing it, can you CP24?
Stop shipping luxury tree syrup around the world and carbon would probably go down.
Yadda yadda yadda. No one believe this bullshit anymore
🤡🌍
*coughbullshitcough*
But climate change is a hoax right. I mean... unless the maple syrup producers are in on it too. OMG!!
A likely story.
Climate Change: the new scare tactic
False
CP24 used to be credible news. What happened guys?
no wonder my diet to lose weight isnt working, its CLIMATE CHANGE thats keeping me fat…..
Woke mixed with some fascism thats the liberal way.
Mission control 911 responding to John Superman's concern about climate change.
Lol
😂
Guess all that money we're shelling out carbon tax isn't helping. Shucks
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 propaganda at its finest 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I ask for news, not stupid bs that works on a child.
Oh look, more propaganda. Guess what?…. Nobody trusts you or believes you anymore!!
Climate change causes leftists brain damage
Muh climate change!..get lost.
Nonsense. Don't embarrass yourself.
Bull 💩
So trees got hit with some extreme weather and u wanna push taxes on carbon to combat this? Wow, just 😯. Maybe plant a tree.
This is absurd, even if Canada hits all the targets by 2030 for climate change. India and china will pollute more in 2023 than what Canada will reduce over the next 7 years. So this is all ridiculous and someone is getting rich off the backs of Canadians!
If we get rid of Trudeau we will have more maple syrup. That is 💯 facts.
These climate change memos from Trudeau are something else.
Cp24 is worse than tmz. All BS all the time
Look at how they can so easily control you. Those who would trade libery for safety deserve neither, and will gdt neither.
Get out of here. Reschedule your tapping.
What are you getting paid to write this? Sap will run no matter what.
FAKE NEWS
Utter nonsense 🙄
Hahahahaha fuck off.
PROPAGANDA!!!
'carbon reduction' so starve the trees?
More mindless propaganda. Maple syrup production has always ebbed and flowed with WEATHER VARIANCE. Probably why only 'some' indoctrinated fools are blaming it on an element necessary for life.
When is this narrative aboit climate change going to stop?!
Climate Change. The reason for everything.
Climate change my ass.
I believe I just lost a few brain cells reading this headline. Ffs 🤡 Climate change takes many thousands of years, this climate crisis only makes rich people richer like it has over the past 50 years and nothing has changed
Agenda: The way canadians living is creating global warming, so WEF, WHO is going to tell canadians what to eat, how to shit and how to live.
Oh stop
Wasn't Justin's carbon tax supposed to make this problem go away?
BS. Yeah trees hate CO2. This year is no different than the previous 50.
Same 'Climate Change' had 2022 as the best maple syrup season EVER......
My pay cheques has been hit by climate change 🙄
Lol, last year was a record breaking year for US maple syrup producers. I can assure anyone reading this that this is utter BS.
Another BS story from the climate bedwetters... next!!
More like supply issues. Trees are t changing but supplies are like taps, spigots, pails, bottles. There's a lack of supplies. It has nothing to do with climate. My maple tree produced maple syrup just fine. I went to.irderxsupplide and taps we're out. I borrowed one from a pal
'The maple syrup producers association nonetheless expects substantial growth over the next 10 years, with millions of taps being added in Ontario, Quebec and some American states. And demand for maple syrup shows no sign of slowing.' Industry is thriving. Non Story. Next.
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