One day Maple season in Wisconsin!

An article from the Milwaukee Sentinel:

This may be one of the worst years in decades for Wisconsin families who for generations have relied on Mother Nature's dependable freezing and thawing cycles in early spring to keep sap running through trees so they can make maple syrup.
For many, the maple syrup season lasted all of one day.
Unusually warm weather lasting more than a few days can fool buds on trees into opening early, said Gretchen Grape, executive director of the Wisconsin Maple Syrup Producers Association.
When the buds open, the sap turns bitter, ending the maple syrup season. That's happened already in some parts of Wisconsin, though hard maple trees bud later than soft maples. Some sugar bushes - forests filled with maple trees - still may have a chance, but only if nighttime temperatures fall below freezing again, and the buds don't open first.
"It's been awful," Grape said. "We're hanging in there to see if it'll change," she said of her own family's sugar bush near Holcombe, about 50 miles north of Eau Claire. "A lot of people have pulled up already and taken the taps out."
Her family's trees haven't budded yet, Grape said. But the Grapes have harvested only enough sap to cook syrup once; usually they cook nearly every day for three weeks.
"My husband, Henry, is 74, and he can't remember a year when we only boiled sap one time," said Grape. "So far, we've got enough syrup for our family, and that's it. We normally produce a couple hundred gallons."

looks like they had one good day of collecting sap.  this was dated March 19th. since then the trees have budded.  not to be selfish but glad we did not rush home this year to make syrup!  hopefully next year is a good one.