Consumers are spending more money to purchase real Christmas trees in 2022 than they did last year.
There is an abundance of Christmas trees available, but that hasn’t reduced the purchase price.
Megan and Matthew Krugger, owners of Mistletoe Acres Tree Farm in East Bridgewater, Mass. (Courtesy of Mistletoe Acres Tree Farm)
A survey of wholesale Christmas tree growers that the Real Christmas Tree Board released at the end of September foretold the price jump.
As reported in the survey, tree growing costs are up and a “majority of growers [71 percent] cited a likely wholesale price increase of 5 percent to 15 percent compared to last year, while 11 percent of respondents anticipated increasing their wholesale prices by a more modest amount: up to no more than 5 percent over last year.”…