First generation maple sugar producer Paul Zononi of Paul’s Sugar House in Williamsburg, MA, has been sugaring since he was 8. He taught himself by fashioning a tap out of a strip of metal from a can and tapping it into a maple. He boiled the sap in an outdoor fireplace behind his parents’ house and...

The phrase “You can’t raise cattle if you shoot the bull” is a double entendre with both metaphorical and very literal meanings. The first means that nothing gets done if you just stand around yapping. The second costs the beef industry millions of dollars annually. “Foreign material in cattle – why...

The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association (NHMPA) recently hosted their annual meeting in Concord, NH. NHMPA President Andrew Chisholm was happy to announce that this year’s meeting had one of the largest turnouts since the group was founded in 1943. The organization has continued to grow each y...