One New Jersey tree farmer said his prices are up about 10%, so a 7-foot Fraser fir is selling for about $105. The price jump will help cover a 350% increase in the cost of fertilizer and other increased costs for the farm.
nationally, according to data from Real Christmas Tree Board, a national research and promotion group. More than 98% of growers said they expected their wholesale prices to go up this year, with some expecting the price of their trees to go up 20% or more.
Off-road diesel fuel jumped 500% in the last three years, while fertilizer increased about 350%, he said. Add in higher labor costs due to minimum wage increases, and Wyckoff said he had no choice but to increase his tree prices so the Warren County business can remain solvent. An entrance sign to Am-Jac Christmas Tree Farm on Plains Road in Augusta on Thursday, December 1, 2022.About 30 miles northeast in Augusta in Sussex County, Richard and Susan Longcore, the husband-and-wife co-owners of Am-Jac Christmas Tree Farm, said they didn’t raise their prices this year.
Tim Dunne, the co-owner of Woodsedge Tree Farm in Belvidere with his wife, said he raised his prices by about 7% this year, after no increase last year. The cost of fertilizer has tripled and equipment to raise and sell the trees has become more expensive and harder to find, he said. Fertilizer and fuel, both major inputs on the farm, have “really hurt us hard, but we don’t want to raise our prices too high, to upset consumers,” he said.
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