11-29-2010, 04:48 AM
It surprises me that with a Christmas tradition of Christmas trees and an ability to grow them here there is no real local effort to meet local demand with local product.
I recall, and it may still be true- not sure, that the Dept. of Agriculture subsidizes Christmas trees by actually paying people to plant the trees with the condition that they not be sold with their roots. Odd I know but it can be a profitable agricultural product for a known local market.
The Star-Advertiser article mentions something like sixty containers of trees coming in with up to 800 trees in each one. That's up to 48,000 trees. Looks like a local economic opportunity to me.
I recall, and it may still be true- not sure, that the Dept. of Agriculture subsidizes Christmas trees by actually paying people to plant the trees with the condition that they not be sold with their roots. Odd I know but it can be a profitable agricultural product for a known local market.
The Star-Advertiser article mentions something like sixty containers of trees coming in with up to 800 trees in each one. That's up to 48,000 trees. Looks like a local economic opportunity to me.
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