The country produced 4.2 million gallons of the pancake topper, up 1% from 2018.

Vermont, the country’s leading producer, made more than 2 million gallons.

New York, which yielded 820,000 gallons (up 14,000 gallons from 2018), followed, according to the data released this past week. Then came Maine with 580,000 gallons and Wisconsin with 270,000 gallons. Michigan ended up with 195,000 gallons, and Pennsylvania produced 157,000 gallons. New Hampshire, the only state in the available data to see a decline in production, yielded 148,000 gallons. Total production numbers were not available for some other maple-producing states.

The maple season requires warm days and nights below freezing for the sap to flow in maple trees. The sap is then boiled into syrup. This year’s season lasted an average of 30 days in the syrup-producing states, compared with 42 days in 2018, the USDA said.

In Vermont, the season started later than in recent years, worrying some producers that it would be too short. But the state ended up producing more syrup than in 2018. It also had 330,000 more taps in trees this year for a total of 6 million taps that helped to draw more sap.

Amanda Voyer, executive director of the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association, said she was even shocked by the amount produced. A number of sugar makers reported one or two record-breaking days of sap flow, she said.

“You can have one day where it’s trickling sap or you can have one day where it’s coming out gangbusters,” she said. “There just happened to be some really solid days.”

New York hit a 74-year record for maple production in 2018, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last July, and the state’s maple industry had grown by nearly 50 percent over five years.

New York produced 806,000 gallons of maple syrup in 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service. Producers benefited from a long season, which lasted 52 days compared to 43 in 2017.

New York is typically second in production among the U.S. states every year, behind Vermont and in front of Maine.