Producers across the province say they’re seeing some of their worst maple syrup crops in almost a decade.“Definitely the worst season we’ve had,” said Ben Tomory, Pefferlaw Creek Farms partner.Tomory wouldn’t normally be pulling taps from the trees this early, but mother nature didn’t co-operate this maple syrup season.“We made all of our syrup in 15 days, which is one of the shortest seasons on record,” said Tomory.Tomory has been making syrup at Pefferlaw Creek Farms, north of Uxbridge for the past seven years.In the past few weeks they produced 25,000 litres, 15,000 short of what they typically generate.
Ontario maple syrup season off to a slow start “Probably around 60 per cent of an average crop, so the weather came in really hot,.