King Whetstone, Director of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, New York Field Office, reports that New York’s maple syrup 2011 production increased 81 percent from last year. Syrup production is estimated at 564,000 gallons, up from the 312,000 gallons produced in 2010. Production was the highest it has been since 1947.

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