Daily News | Heat and a Scrooge-like drought may spike Christmas tree prices this season.
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rainfall has actually been above normal this summer. That surprised Gregg Van Horn, who farms 50 acres in Creekside, Indiana County. “I lost 100 or so trees out of 2,000 I planted this year,” he said, which he says is reasonable. “We’ll get hot dry weather for a long while and maybe one day of good rain. It is dry around here, but it hasn’t gotten really super dry.”
Van Horn, whose farm is about 90 minutes northeast of Pittsburgh, said he was selling trees for $60 last season.Pennsylvania is one of the top suppliers of real Christmas trees in the United States, along with Oregon, North Carolina and Michigan. New Jersey ranks below them, but theMay and Exley said the few rain showers in South Jersey this summer have been short and sporadic. It may rain on one of Exley’s fields in Gloucester County, but not their other field, just 15 miles away.
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