The 2013 NASS report did try to offer some helpful advice to Christmas tree farms trying to stay afloat and appeal to customers with a bit less space for a tree in their lives (or apartments). One can't track year-over-year growth for the Christmas tree industry, as the census is published only every five years, and there was a span from 1998 to 2009 when it wasn't published at all.
It's hard to quantify what this boom means for the Christmas tree industry due to the infrequency with which the data is collected. growers hope sales will increase more in the.
dollars on real Christmas Trees last year. When compared with 2009 totals, 2014 marks a 47 percent increase in revenue and 7.1 million more trees sold. Taken together, Japan and Mexico combined spend millions of U.S. They hand plant, hand grow and hand harvest. "Consumers have been purchasing increasing numbers of artificial trees in recent years as many of them have been frustrated about the messiness caused by needle drop from trees that were harvested as much as two months before Christmas," one 2013 NASS report warned.īut 2014 was actually a banner year for Christmas tree farms, according to the Census of Horticultural Specialties: There were 3,352 Christmas tree operations and 19.9 million trees sold for $366.6 million. In North Carolina the second largest exporter, which supplies 20 percent of the trees it’s very labor intensive. And for many years, it has warned of a decline in Christmas tree farms and productions as they face competition from easier-to-manage artificial trees. The National Agricultural Statistics Service keeps a close eye on Christmas tree production in the United States. 2 The rest were exported to the rest of Europe with Germany importing 6070 percent of those trees. 2 For instance, in 1999 Denmark produced between 67 million Christmas trees annually, of that number between 500,000700,000 were consumed domestically. Michigan produces and sells more than nine Christmas tree varieties on a wholesale level, which is more varieties than any other state Our state has approximately 37,000 acres in commercial Christmas tree production Michigan boasts an annual farm gate value of more than 1. Is the Christmas tree industry in decline? Denmark was Europe's leading exporter of natural Christmas trees in 1999. An estimated 60 million to 70 million Christmas tree seedlings are planted yearly, and the industry employs on average at least 100,000 people. North Carolina is the leading producer of Fraser firs, and Oregon is the leading producer of both noble and Douglas firs. The three best-selling species of Christmas trees include the Fraser fir, noble fir, and Douglas fir. Overall, 17.3 million Christmas trees were produced in 2012. North Carolina was the second-largest producer of Christmas trees (4.3 million), followed by Michigan (1.7 million) and Pennsylvania (1 million).
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