COLRAIN, Mass.—Producers were enjoying big runs and scrambling to get tapped this week.

"I'm calling it 'Sapageddon,'" said Howard Boyden of Conway, Mass. who hadn't had a sap run as big as this week's in all his years of sugaring.

"We made 233 gallons in almost 20 straight hours of boiling," Boyden said. "The sap ran straight through from Monday to Wednesday.  We got 9,000 gallons of sap of off 3700 taps."

Producers from the Bay State were gathered at Sunrise Farms in Colrain, Mass. for the annual first tree tapping with state agriculture commissioner John Labeaux.

Keith Bardwell of Whately, Mass. enjoyed a similar big run this week.

"We're at .4 of a gallon per tap already and it's only the first week of March," he said.

The warm-up started on Monday and send many producers into the woods quickly.

“We’re getting rocking,” said Dale Bowen, an 11,000-tap producer in Copenhagen, N.Y. who was a little more than halfway tapped this week.

“I figure if we're completely tapped by Mach 10 we're looking good,” Bowen said.

He’d already made 160 gallons off of a 6,000 gallon run of 1.2 percent sap on Monday, enjoying what was for many producers the first major sap run of the season.

The Midwest was doing great so far, as well.

“It’s been going like crazy,” said Aden Miller of Middlefield, Ohio, where the sap has been flowing for three weeks and producers are doing all they can to keep up.

“And it looks good into next week too,” Miller said.

“Downstate Ohio they have been going gangbusters,” reported Les Ober, maple expert with the Ohio State University extension.

In Michigan, Kirk Hedding of Chelsea, Michigan, who is president of the Michigan Maple Producers Associaton said he had just filled his second barrel on his 5th boil on Thursday.

“Pretty much the whole state has been making syrup,” he said.

Joe Miller in Peru, Indiana was also enjoying a great season so far.

“Here in Northern Indiana it's cranking out the sap like crazy and high sugar too,” Miller told The Maple News this week.  “It’s looking like an awesome season unless it shuts off suddenly.”

In Pennsylvania, producers were also enjoying a great early season.

“We have made 435 gallons so far, hoping for some good runs this week,” Lori Liszka who sugars with husband Bob Liszka in Jamestown, Pa. told the Maple News on Monday.