There's A Christmas Tree Shortage And Who Fucked This Up?

PERRY HALL, Md. (WJZ)– Not the news people want to hear this time of year. The low supply of trees is forcing some tree retailers to raise their prices or even turn away customers. At Frostee Tree Farm in Baltimore County, they’ve already sold more than half of their mature trees and they say it’s still early in the season, and they’re on track to run out fairly quickly.

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We’re talking about a Christmas tree shortage? Come on guys! This is ridiculous. You can’t let this happen! Christmas trees are some of the most dependable sources of income of all time. Like, Christmas happens ever year. You know exactly when people are going to buy a Christmas tree. The market stays the same! (I know very little about markets). If you don’t grow enough, that’s a fuck up!

“A lot of new customers coming in this year and some of the customers are saying the tree farms they use to go to are closed now,” said Stiffler, Frostee Tree Farm owner. “A lot of people are just getting out of the business, and the younger generation is not taking over like they use to.”

I don’t know dude! If you don’t keep track of the fact that other tree farms go out of business, meaning you’ll get more customers, that’s a fuck up! These guys are talking about these things like they’re unfortunate circumstances, but you guys are entrepreneurs and this is your business! These are all fuck ups!

People come in and buy Christmas trees and then you grow new ones, that’s how it works- no excuse to not grow enough.

Another factor is the recession. When sales were down, growers couldn’t harvest all of their trees and therefore couldn’t plant a new batch.

Now, about a decade later, which is the time a tree needs to reach about seven feet, we’re seeing the impact.

Anybody think that it's pretty convenient that it takes about a decade to grow a tree and the recession was about a decade ago? Mhmmm thought so too. Nice try guys.