With the weirdly cold spring changing normal production schedules, maple syrup producers have had a rough season. But they have a new advantage, too. Instead of relying on buckets attached to trees to ...

MILTON, Vt. — Maple syrup production has come a long way from metal buckets hung on trees, but even high-tech operations have had to rely on old-fashioned foot patrols to fix a common problem — leaks.