The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded a small specialty crop block grant to the Michigan Christmas Tree ...

Sam Cartner Jr., co-owner of Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm, measures the official White House Christmas tree, a 20-foot Fraser fir, in Newland, N.C., on Nov. 13, 2024. The Christmas tree industry just ...

BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX) - The first few days after Thanksgiving are busy for Christmas tree farms despite facing harsh weather conditions and inflation. Over the last few years, costs have risen ...

Not only is Black Friday the biggest shopping day of the year, it’s also the day many people continue family traditions and buy their Christmas trees. Star Hill Family Farm in Portland was buzzing ...

Keith Stocker is no stranger to waiting. It’s a trait inherent to most farmers, patience. Something about spending year after year in the same cycle of planting, fertilizing, spraying, trimming, ...

Whether you decorate for Christmas before or after Thanksgiving, if you're someone who purchases a real tree for the holiday, ...

Next to those stockings hung by the chimney with care, it appears more likely than ever that the trimmed tree will be, well, faux. The holiday tradition of setting up a Christmas tree has endured ...

Christmas tree farms in Australia are already shutting up shop this year, as pandemic-weary consumers eager for some festive joy spurn plastic versions and seek out fresh pine trees to spruce up their ...

The Christmas tree industry just can’t catch a break. The industry — a collection of tree farmers and sellers across the country — has only just emerged from supply shortages dating to the 2008 ...