Articles written by Dave Olson

Dave Olson, Bemidji Pioneer|Mar 23, 2012

CALLAWAY – In a good year, JoDan Rousu and his extended family can expect to get more than 200 gallons of refined maple syrup out of the family’s maple tree farm near here. This is not a good year. “We’ve been producing maple sugar commercially for 40-plus years, and this is quite possibly the strangest season we’ve ever seen,” Rousu said. He said they will be lucky to bottle 40 or 50 gallons of syrup from the harvest, which is wrapping up this week on the farm about 90 miles southwest of Bemidj...