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Every year, Idaho's state Christmas tree is lit in front of the statehouse in Boise. According to a local news station , this year's tree is a 36-foot-tall blue spruce that weighs about 3,750 pounds.
There are close to 15,000 farms growing Christmas trees across the 50 states, with approximately 350 million trees growing on them, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.
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. Several states and territories of the United States have provided these trees.
In 2015, Washington State had approximately 250 Christmas tree farms with a combined 23,000 acres, yielding 2.3 million Christmas trees valued at approximately $35 million. The majority of Christmas tree production occurs in the western and southern portions of the Puget Sound region including Kitsap, Lewis, Mason and Thurston counties. [7]
A Christmas tree farm in the U.S. state of Oregon. Oregon had more area devoted to the crop than any other U.S. state in 2002. An aerial view of a Christmas tree farm in the U.S. state of Missouri. The European demand for live trees reaches about 50 million per year, compared with the demand for about 35 million of the trees in the United ...
One of the most popular seasonal offerings is An Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar City, during which the theme park becomes a Christmas wonderland with 6.5 million lights and 80 themed ...
The National Christmas Tree and Pathway of Peace trees consumed 7,000 watts over four weeks in 2010, at a cost of about $180. [238] (The National Christmas Tree alone consumed 2,000 watts in 2011.) [212] The lighting scheme used 60,000 LED lights and 265 spherical ornaments in 2013, [220] [221] while consuming just 5700 watts. [220]
Supply and Demand of Christmas Trees. There are about 15,000 Christmas tree farms in the U.S. according to the USDA. The market is controlled by the 434 biggest farms, which command about 75% of ...