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Morgan, Vermont – 11 April 2025
1. Exterior of sugarhouse
2. Steam coming out of sugarhouse
3. Sap coming out of Maple tree
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“I’ve been making maple syrup here since about 1978.”
5. Jim Judd making syrup inside sugarhouse
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“I’ve spent countless amounts of hours and lots and lots and lots of money in Canada because they are the primary producers of high quality equipment.”
7. Jim Judd making syrup inside sugarhouse
8. Close up of “made in Canada” on equipment
9. Judd measuring syrup with hydrometer
10. Close up of hydrometer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“They’re just not available in the United States. So, you know, any kind of disruption with our cross-border enterprise, we feel it.”
12. Donna Young cleaning holding tank at Judd’s Wayeeses Farms
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“We’re hard-pressed to think about what do we have that we use that is from the United States?"
14. Chad Camber loading firewood
15. Steam rising inside sugarhouse
16. Judd monitoring syrup
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“Any agricultural endeavor is uncertain. And when you add in the financial side of it, it becomes, you know, you got dual uncertainties here. We have weather and we have tariffs.”
18. UPSOUND (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“It’s bringing maple sap from our forest into this building. And you can see it running in right here. That’s just pure sap coming from the trees.”
19. Close up of sap inside reverse osmosis machine
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“We are as I mentioned earlier, producing a luxury product that isn’t necessary for your table. It’s something you like for your table, so we can’t just arbitrarily raise our price.”
21. Donna Young seen through window of sugarhouse
22. Donna Young making syrup inside sugarhouse
23. Old containers of maple syrup on shelf
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“Our containers come from Italy. There’s now a new tariff on Italy. So, we’re sure our container price is going to go up.”
25. Jug of maple syrup
26. Jugs of maple syrup
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“A lot of our stainless steel fixtures come out of Asia.”
28. Pipelines running through trees
29. Close up of pipelines running through trees
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“We connect all of our pipelines together with stainless steel connectors.”
31. Pipelines running through trees
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Judd, owner, Judd’s Wayeeses Farms:
“We’ve been crossing this border all my life, and the recent changes are, are changes that we see are being imposed on the people that live here. We’re not sure that they’re all necessary.”
STORYLINE:
Jim Judd knows making maple syrup in New England’s fickle spring weather can be an unpredictable business, but the Trump administration’s tariffs are adding a level of deeper uncertainty about the very the nature of the cross-border enterprise.
“Any kind of disruption with our cross border enterprise, we feel it,” Judd said. “It’s uncertain enough making maple syrup.”
Judd has been making Vermont’s signature product since the 1970s, and he also concedes that making the sticky sweetener involves the work of several countries.
production and is the industry’s global power.
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