WESTFIELD, Pa.—Sugarmakers in the Northeast are off to a strong start and in the Midwest, most sugarmakers are pulling taps after a stretch of weather last week that hit the 80s.

“The sap changed a little bit but I think it will come back,” said 65,000-tap sugarmaker Mike Eldridge of Sunrise Maple in Westfield, Pa. Eldridge and his father, Tim, and brothers, Matt and Nick have made 11,500 gallons so far, he said on Saturday including a massive day last week when they made 2,000 gallons in 16 hours.

Down the road, at 80,000-tap Patterson Farms in Sabinsville, Pa. it was a similar story.

“We filled 47 barrels in a 24 hour period,” said owner Terry Patterson. “We got 114,000 gallons of sap in a three day span.”

In Ulysses, Pa. sugarmaker Marshall Hamilton was hoping that the cold snap this weekend would reset the trees.

“The season’s been great,” he told the Maple News. “We hoping for another half.”

In Ohio, they also had a massive run early last week, but the heat wave in the middle of the week, ended the season early for most.

“The spring peepers came out last night,” said Ray Gingerich of Orwell, Ohio, who’s made 4,900 gallons off his 18,786 taps. Most of the season’s production was in the same two-week stretch in early March.

“One day the releasers couldn’t keep up and we had to turn the vacuum down,” Gingerich told The Maple News. “We’ve never had to do that before.”

In Northern Vermont, sugarmakers also had a huge run late last week.

Steve and Betsy Fleury of Fleury’s Maple Hill Farm in Richford, Vt. boiled for six days in a row last week.

“We’re nine to five boilers,” Steve Fleury said, as he and his wife slow-cooked raw 2 percent sap on Wednesday. The family does not have an RO.

In the Southern areas of the Maple Belt, the season is over, with mixed results.

“We made about 75 percent of a crop,” said Dan Winger of North Manchester, Ind. who boils with wife, Ruth. The warm-up last week—a stretch of weather in the mid-70s—budded out the trees.

In New Jersey, sugarmaker Tom Phillips in Halifax, N.J. said he ended the season when it hit 80 degrees last Tuesday.

“I probably made only 75% of a crop, gravity tubing only ran 4 gallons per tap,” he told The Maple News. “Vacuum tubing ran 14 gallons per tap with low sugar content.”

In the Upper Midwest, sugarmakers were waiting out a big blizzard over the weekend, dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

This week, sugarmakers in Central New York and other areas were emptying tanks as fast as they could.

In Northern New Hampshire, 25,000-tap sugarmaker David Fuller of Jefferson, N.H. said it was one of the best runs he’s ever had last week in his 52-year career.

“It was one of the hardest early season runs I can recall,” Fuller told The Maple News last week. “In 4 days we have made around 20 percent of a crop.”