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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>Sugaring season is underway</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21533/20130301/sugaring-season-is-underway</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 1, 2013) It may not feel like spring outside yet, but it&apos;s coming. The days are getting longer, the sun is higher in the sky, and the sap buckets are out.  Jeffrey Jenness of Orebad Sugar Shack in DeKalb Junction says February was a slow month for sugaring. When he spoke with Julie Grant earlier this week, Jenness had only collected a couple hundred gallons of sap.  For an operation like his, that&apos;s not enough to get the equipment dirty and start making syrup. He&apos;s hoping for better days ahead. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21533/20130301/sugaring-season-is-underway">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Julie Grant</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[It may not feel like spring outside yet, but it&apos;s coming. The days are getting longer, the sun is higher in the sky, and the sap buckets are out.  Jeffrey Jenness of Orebad Sugar Shack in DeKalb Junction says February was a slow month for sugaring. When he spoke with Julie Grant earlier this week, Jenness had only collected a couple hundred gallons of sap.  For an operation like his, that&apos;s not enough to get the equipment dirty and start making syrup. He&apos;s hoping for better days ahead. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21533/20130301/sugaring-season-is-underway">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:keywords>environment, weather, food, maple syrup, small business, [loc:44.5050816 -75.2736824], photolead, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Neighbors gather for a warm-weather &quot;boil&quot;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19532/20120321/neighbors-gather-for-a-warm-weather-quot-boil-quot</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 21, 2012) The unusually warm weather this March hasn&apos;t been great for sugar makers. Maple syrup yields across northern New York and Vermont have been low, and a lot of producers are pulling their taps. But in spite of the strange temperatures, sugaring traditions remain alive and well. Sarah Harris went to an Adirondack &quot;boil&quot; and sent this audio postcard. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19532/20120321/neighbors-gather-for-a-warm-weather-quot-boil-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Sarah Harris</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The unusually warm weather this March hasn&apos;t been great for sugar makers. Maple syrup yields across northern New York and Vermont have been low, and a lot of producers are pulling their taps. But in spite of the strange temperatures, sugaring traditions remain alive and well. Sarah Harris went to an Adirondack &quot;boil&quot; and sent this audio postcard. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19532/20120321/neighbors-gather-for-a-warm-weather-quot-boil-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:06</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>environment, sugaring, maple, maple syrup, boil, agriculture, spring, sap, outdoor recreation, adirondacks, nc identity, photolead, [loc:44.4516700 -74.0661100], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Loans up to $40,000 available for NC maple producers</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19021/20111229/loans-up-to-40-000-available-for-nc-maple-producers</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Dec 29, 2011) Many North Country Maple producers can now tap into a new loan fund to help them increase the amount of syrup they produce. The Development authority of the North Country, or DANC, set up the program after several studies showed most maple trees in the area aren’t being tapped. That means producers are missing out on a lot of potential revenue. Nora Flaherty has the details. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19021/20111229/loans-up-to-40-000-available-for-nc-maple-producers">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Nora Flaherty</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many North Country Maple producers can now tap into a new loan fund to help them increase the amount of syrup they produce. The Development authority of the North Country, or DANC, set up the program after several studies showed most maple trees in the area aren’t being tapped. That means producers are missing out on a lot of potential revenue. Nora Flaherty has the details. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/19021/20111229/loans-up-to-40-000-available-for-nc-maple-producers">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>01:21</itunes:duration>
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<title>Quebec&apos;s &apos;strategic maple reserve&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17430/20110406/quebec-apos-s-apos-strategic-maple-reserve-apos</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 6, 2011) A couple years ago, a friend of the station e-mailed us to say she had heard something about a &quot;strategic maple reserve&quot;—a vast bunker of maple syrup hidden somewhere in the Great White North just in case of—well, we didn&apos;t know.The &quot;strategic maple reserve&quot; fell off the radar until this spring, when David Sommerstein snooped around.  Turns out it wasn&apos;t hard to find.  Simon Trepanier is the director of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. Trepanier&apos;s organization maintains the strategic maple reserve, and it&apos;s pretty serious. Quebec is the world&apos;s largest maple syrup maker by far.  The province&apos;s 7500 producers boil down 75% of all the maple syrup on Earth.So as more countries and more people hanker for the sweet stuff, one bad year in Quebec could turn the market upside down. That is, until the strategic maple reserve was created.  Trepanier told David Sommerstein the reserve isn&apos;t as secret or mysterious as it sounds. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17430/20110406/quebec-apos-s-apos-strategic-maple-reserve-apos">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A couple years ago, a friend of the station e-mailed us to say she had heard something about a &quot;strategic maple reserve&quot;—a vast bunker of maple syrup hidden somewhere in the Great White North just in case of—well, we didn&apos;t know.The &quot;strategic maple reserve&quot; fell off the radar until this spring, when David Sommerstein snooped around.  Turns out it wasn&apos;t hard to find.  Simon Trepanier is the director of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers. Trepanier&apos;s organization maintains the strategic maple reserve, and it&apos;s pretty serious. Quebec is the world&apos;s largest maple syrup maker by far.  The province&apos;s 7500 producers boil down 75% of all the maple syrup on Earth.So as more countries and more people hanker for the sweet stuff, one bad year in Quebec could turn the market upside down. That is, until the strategic maple reserve was created.  Trepanier told David Sommerstein the reserve isn&apos;t as secret or mysterious as it sounds. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17430/20110406/quebec-apos-s-apos-strategic-maple-reserve-apos">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:49</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, economy, food, canada, quebec, spring, maple syrup, agriculture, farming, [loc:46.8032826 -71.2427960], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Heard Up North: getting serious about maple syrup</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17313/20110316/heard-up-north-getting-serious-about-maple-syrup</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 16, 2011) With warm, sunny days and cold nights, this week is the first serious sap run of the maple syrup season.  Yesterday, Todd Moe spoke with St. Lawrence County Maple Association president Hugh Newton.  He said people who visit his sugar shanty still want to see the icon of sweetness - those metal gray buckets hanging on maple tree trunks.  &quot;So I strategically place &apos;em,&quot; Newton says, &quot;so if you&apos;re standing in the right spot, you get a picture of the buckets and it looks like the whole woods is done in  buckets.&quot;Look deeper into the woods, though, and you’ll see the equipment the modern maple syrup producer relies on – plastic piping that gravity feeds sap into collection tanks, and a vacuum pump that help suck more sap out of a tree.David Sommerstein recently went out into the spring woods in Pierrepont as maple syrup producer Dillon Huntley was hooking up a vacuum pump for the first time.  He sent this Heard Up North. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17313/20110316/heard-up-north-getting-serious-about-maple-syrup">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[With warm, sunny days and cold nights, this week is the first serious sap run of the maple syrup season.  Yesterday, Todd Moe spoke with St. Lawrence County Maple Association president Hugh Newton.  He said people who visit his sugar shanty still want to see the icon of sweetness - those metal gray buckets hanging on maple tree trunks.  &quot;So I strategically place &apos;em,&quot; Newton says, &quot;so if you&apos;re standing in the right spot, you get a picture of the buckets and it looks like the whole woods is done in  buckets.&quot;Look deeper into the woods, though, and you’ll see the equipment the modern maple syrup producer relies on – plastic piping that gravity feeds sap into collection tanks, and a vacuum pump that help suck more sap out of a tree.David Sommerstein recently went out into the spring woods in Pierrepont as maple syrup producer Dillon Huntley was hooking up a vacuum pump for the first time.  He sent this Heard Up North. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17313/20110316/heard-up-north-getting-serious-about-maple-syrup">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:11</itunes:duration>
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