Rouzer's 5R Farms

06/03/2026

The strawberries are starting!

05/01/2026

I had the pleasure of tagging this little rascal after work today. Another baby on the ground. That new bull sure is something 😆

04/27/2026

Picked up the new bull today and had the first calf of the year.

04/09/2026

03/31/2026

Duke is back in the hot seat tonight. Ray fired up the RO when he got home from work this morning and got things ready for us. We had around 900 gallons of sap collected from yesterday. The forecast still looks promising. Think snow😆

03/22/2026

Duke took his turn at cooking yesterday. We collected and cooked 2600 gallons of sap since Friday afternoon. The cooker was fed wood almost continuously for 26 hours. The only time we quit was to pull off a batch of syrup and start the next. Ira, Ray, Duke and Eric kept things going. Thanks to Cole and Scott for helping collect and getting the sap out of the woods. Thanks to Derin for taking parts off of his side by side too keep mine going. In the one picture that looks like a jacket in the chair, Duke is sleeping curled in a ball using his jacket as a blanket.

03/21/2026

I was able to take a pretty neat picture tonight of Ray and Cole hauling sap out today. Ray's Mom and Dad's farm is in the background.

03/20/2026

The sap has started to run again. With the above freezing temps over the next few days, the vacuum pumps will stay running. This morning in the big tank we had around a 250 gallon maple sap cube. This will melt over the next few days but will benefit the sap quality by keeping it cool during the warm up. It should be a fun next few days.

03/14/2026

First batch of 26 in the books. Ira did great job of running the cooker. Ended up with about 16 gallons of syrup.