Many maple farms, predominantly family-owned, are suffering as winters become shorter and shorter. It means the time frame for making the syrup is shrinking.
Farmer Ben Simons, along with Kyle and Gordon Tibbitts, the fifth generation of maple producers at Tibbitts Maple in New Hartford, spoke at the Oneida County Board of Legislators meeting on Wednesday about Maple Weekend.
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