Next days are crucial for Quebec’s maple syrup crop

Maple farmers will be keeping an eye on the mercury for the coming days, because the warm weather forecast could spell problems for their maple crops.

The temperature climbed to 15 C on Friday and will stay positive over the weekend, which could spell trouble for sap production.

“There’s a dome of hot air in the U.S. If it moves 100 miles further north, it could screw it up faster than anything,” David Hall, the president of Montérégie East for Quebec Maple Syrup Producers, said of syrup production.