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My name's Dave Slaybaugh, Mountain Ridge Farms.
We have 350 acres of apple, 100 acres of peach,
and 85 acres of Christmas trees. What would be one of the benefits of
Christmas trees to your operation? Diversification.
That way we have apples, peaches, and Christmas trees for
income at the end of the year. What are the challenges
of producing Christmas trees? Probably the most challenges
are the weather. You trim the Christmas trees in
July and August which is some of the hottest times of year and you harvest the
Christmas trees November and December.
This year we occurred about four different snowstorms and you're out here
you're cutting trees in the snow, in the ice, rain, whatever weather conditions may
be.
How do you market your Christmas trees?
we market wholesale is our whole clientele.
What other marketing options are
available? They have retail,
cut-your-own, or online and then wholesale.
Is there anything else you want people to know about
Christmas, producing Christmas trees?
There's a little bit more work into it than anybody realizes. You're gonna be,
you know, herbiciding twice a year, spring and fall.
You're gonna put on about 5 to 6 sprays a year for fungicide and insecticide.
You're gonna have to trim them once a year. So there's
definitely a lot more work that goes into them than a lot of people realize. A lot of expense.