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Article: Growing money on trees. (Arkansas' seasonal Christmas tree business)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- December 17, 1990
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Growing Money On Trees
You can get one tall enough to scrape the ceiling or small enough to sit on a table, one that is perfectly shaped or one with the natural look. Whatever the choice, Christmas trees definitely are big business in Arkansas and bring their growers more than a million dollars a year in net profit.
A Christmas tree farmer - there are at least 150 of them in Arkansas - must wait four years before harvesting his first crop and realizing a profit. After that, however, it is a lucrative business.
Walter Kirchoff, owner of Santa's Little Forest near Altheimer (Jefferson County), estimates that net profit per tree is about $4. By ...