Warmer temps move up the maple syrup harvest in NE Iowa

Maple sap harvesters across northeast Iowa got the season started nearly three weeks early thanks to warmer than normal temperatures. 

Floyd County Conservation Director Adam Sears says this is the earliest start to the sap season he’s seen in 10 years. 

Sears says the recent series of 50-degree days changed his usual timeline and they’ve already collected about one third of their normal sap collection.  

Floyd County Conservation typically harvests close to ten thousand gallons of sap each season, which yields about 200 gallons of maple syrup.

*Article courtesy Grant Winterer, Iowa Public Radio