One of the oldest crops in North America was being harvested this month a few miles up the Minnesota River from New Ulm. Fred ...

We're all trying to still get our feet under us and figure out what to do," one producer said, "because no one's seen this ...

When "Clergyman" wrote his letter, most Vermonters who made maple sugar only produced enough to meet their own families’ needs.

"We enjoy it," says Don Manchur, who along with his wife Suzanne has carried on a legacy of local production that began in ...

A conspicuous new sight on one of our recent daily walks past a neighbor’s property is a spider web of plastic tubes ...

Daily Press Operations Forester Kile Ziudema explains the workings of the network of interconnected sugar maple trees at the ...

State agriculture officials are still assessing the damage from last month’s once-in-a-lifetime ice storm in Northern ...

Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

Maple sap is heated in a large pan to evaporate water and make maple syrup in this file photo. Michigan's maple syrup industry will likely lose 25%, about 50,000 gallons, of annual production this ...

Environmental scientists and syrup producers say they expect to see major shifts in seasonal harvests due to climate change ...

Maple Hill Subaru in Kalamazoo ... made sure the donated trees are native to the West Michigan area. These include northern red buds, northern oaks, sugar leaf maples, serviceberries (shadbush ...