![]() The firs in the United States and Germany are chiefly for the domestic market, Oestergaard said. Worldwide, the United States tops the list with 36 million firs harvested in 2002 while in Europe, Germany has the lead with 22 million trees. “And when there is a lot of snow, it’s not easy to harvest the trees,” he said.Īlthough the small Scandinavian country of five million is the largest exporter, it is not the largest producer of Christmas trees. China is the worlds largest exporter of Christmas decorations, with a total export value of US6.62 billion in 2020. Winters with temperatures below minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) hamper the grow of the trees. “Firs grow better in a country like Denmark where temperature don’t stay too long under freezing point and that doesn’t get a lot of snow,” he said. In fact, just six counties in the two states. This year, Danish Christmas tree farmers will export to Germany – Denmark’s main market – France, Britain, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark’s two Scandinavian neighbours, Sweden and Norway.ĭanes chiefly produce the popular Nordmann fir, a slow-growing, symmetrical tree that does not lose its needles as easily as other Christmas trees do when they are moved inside a heated home.Ī cold, snow-covered landscape depicting a Christmas tree may be ideal on greeting cards but not for growing firs. The two states are the largest producers of real Christmas trees in the country, according to data from the U.S. ![]() “This means that next year we will not get that much production,” he said. “When prices dropped afterward, farmers stopped planting trees and the amount of area replanted decreased,” said Oestergaard. The amount of land used to cultivate Christmas trees had nearly tripled, to 66,000 acres. Water levels were starting to drop by Thursday (local time).Production had grown so much by 1996, that prices dropped because of a market glut. Sold wholesale, around 85 of the trees leave Belgium for other countries, making Belgium the second largest European exporter of Christmas trees after Denmark, according to the Walloon agency for the promotion of quality agriculture (Apaq-W). Mr Loewen said if the waters did not subside within the week, younger trees could be damaged, hurting future supply. His self-serve fields, where people choose and cut their own Christmas trees, are 75 per cent flooded. Trees already cut and wrapped for wholesale buyers were piled up on wood pallets, surrounded by water, he said. ![]() "We're basically shut down until the water recedes." The maritime province is the second largest exporter of Christmas trees. "We can't ship them because all the roads are closed," said Arthur Loewen, whose tree farm in Chilliwack, east of Vancouver, has been swamped. One province looking to further benefit from the Christmas tree industry is Nova Scotia. That means shortfalls in that province will have to be made up with supply from elsewhere, leaving fewer Canadian trees for export. While British Columbia does not export cut Christmas trees, it is a significant domestic supplier. Canada, the world's top exporter of natural Christmas trees, is grappling with a shortage that will likely be exacerbated by historic flooding in British Columbia, where some tree farms are underwater.Ī phenomenon known as an atmospheric river dumped a month's worth of rain on the Pacific province in just two days, destroying roads and bridges and leaving some communities cut off from the rest of Canada.Ĭanada exports about 2.3 million Christmas trees a year, with some 97 per cent going to the United States.
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