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Seventy-five percent of the Christmas trees harvested from the 850 Michigan tree farms are exported out of state for sale elsewhere. Christmas tree farms in Michigan covered 54,000 acres in 2004. [13] 2008 estimates from a Michigan State University educator put the state's annual crop still at around $60 million in value annually but she ...
Christmas tree cultivation is an agricultural, forestry, and horticultural occupation which involves growing pine, spruce, and fir trees specifically for use as Christmas trees . The first Christmas tree farm was established in 1901, but most consumers continued to obtain their trees from forests until the 1930s and 1940s.
Cut evergreen trees were used in 1923 and from 1954 to 1972. Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted.
Purinton Family Tree Farm has 14 acres of Balsam firs − those native evergreens that smell so Christmas-y − where it grows around 14,000 trees. Owner Austin Purinton said the trees are $60 ...
Exley's Christmas Tree Farms, Sewell and Monroeville. Sewell: Tree tagging available, as well as family activities like a hayride to Santa Land and a Thomas the Train display.Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 ...
And while tree sales decline, wreaths continue to grow in popularity. Kevin Sprang said he sold 35 wreaths back in 1971, his first year. Now, the farm has about a dozen people making wreaths, and ...
In 2002, in the United States, 21,904 Christmas tree farms covering 447,000 acres (1,809 km 2) of cropland accounted for the 20.8 million Christmas trees cut. [8] Of those farms, 686 harvested 100 acres (0.4 km 2) or more, which accounted for over 196,000 acres (793 km 2) of the total area of trees harvested.
Randy Pratt, owner and chief operating officer, stands in a Christmas tree field Nov. 8 at Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm in Yorktown Heights. The farm is celebrating its 107th season of harvest.