Video claimed you can earn $60-thousand per acre raisng X-mass trees.

[Raul-02]

Is this even remotely true? I've known a few people who did X-mass trees, and all of them insisted that it was a great way to lose money for taxes. Not one said they made money at it.
Course, not a one was selling commercially, they did choose-and-cut.

 

[jeff9366]

We will all be rich!!!!!!

 

[Jstpssng]

1300 trees per acre, on a 6x6 spacing. If they all live, you have no expenses, and you can sell each one of them for $45 you can indeed make that much money.

 

[Raul-02]

If they all live, you have no expenses, and you can sell each one of them for $45 you can indeed make that much money.

We will all be rich!!!!!!

This guy is claiming $200,000
These claims are so way out there.
I'm thinking maybe I can revive the pet rock craze. I'll b a GoZillionaire.

 

[Jstpssng]

This guy is claiming $200,000
These claims are so way out there.
I'm thinking maybe I can revive the pet rock craze. I'll b a GoZillionaire.

You can gross that, but there is a lot of time, patience, and waiting involved, along with some capital investment. It would take 7-10 years just to start seeing trees big enough to sell. There is time in the spring for fertilizing and mowing, time to shear the trees each year. You also need a market, and the time to be around during the weekends from Thanksgiving to Christmas when people are buying trees. Also decent weather... 1 crappy weekend can make people decide to put up an artificial tree this year.

 

[Richard]

Is anyone in the video attempting to sell or market to you, supplies, seedlings, advice or anything else for a fee? If so, I'd be about halfway to China now from running away so fast.

If someone is for example, touting a get rich quick scheme in the stock market, I'll ask if it's so good, why are they wasting their time trying to sell a book/video or something else for $x when they could instead, be basking in the sun on their personal island.....if their idea was really that fantastic??

 

[Raul-02]

attempting to sell or market to you, s

nope The tree chick is (I think) one of those enthusiastic first-timers who see rainbows with pots of gold.
You know sort of like the guy who buys a new tool for way too much money and just has to tell everyone how great it is before he has a few hours using it. I think they are mostly Festool owners.

the $200,000 a year guy is, I think, full of Hooey. I just don't believe him. But it's not impossible that he's in some super-wealthy upscale market where he caters to restaurants like the French Laundry and other such places. I knew a chef/owner of such a restaurant and his type is crazy to spend ridiculous amounts of money for produce they think is superior. He was sourcing vanilla beans from a bespoke estate in Madagascar, Chocolate from another small batch producer, heirloom tomatoes, and heritage breed pork and chickens. For dinner for 2 you couldn't get out of that place for under $800, and that was over 20 years ago, maybe 30.
So if he's in that market then maybe.

 

[jjeff]

Lol. In my experience its a lot harder than it looks, I sell "natural looking organic" u-cuts at 30 bucks a tree. Most are what's left of an old overgrown tree farm and folks happily cut the tops off for there Xmas tree at that price. I've been clearing some of the land of the real big overgrown ones, brush, aspen and birch and planting several hundred new ones every spring for 4 years now one year I went "big" and planted 400, 350 flooded out . I just started spacing them closer to 6x6 used to go 6x8'or10' between rows. Bottom line I grow and sell for a hobby wife loves it because we can write a lot off, I enjoy it cause I can operate and work on 2 old Kubota tractors, be outdoors, learning, teaching, and doing work with the wife and kids.
It doesn't involve watching mind numbing webinars and pushing papers like my other job.
We also dabble in growing/selling sweet corn and pumpkins on our small hobby farm. I'm very grateful everyday we can afford to do something like this and I think I'd lose all enjoyment of doing this if I needed to try and make a decent living from it. Total respect for those who do.

 

[4570Man]

1300 trees per acre, on a 6x6 spacing. If they all live, you have no expenses, and you can sell each one of them for $45 you can indeed make that much money.

I calculated 1,200 trees vs 1300 trees on said acre but that’s not that important. The big problem you missed is you can’t harvest the trees every year. Then when you consider there’s quit a few expenses and $45 would the high end for a wholesale Christmas tree I think we can agree that 60k per acre per year is a completely far fetched claim.

 

[ultrarunner]

Other "Crops" are drawing tree farmers in Oregon... why wait 7 years when Pot is legal is a direction some are going.

Don't forget the disastrous fires and water issues in the West has impacted tree growers.

We lost 2/3 seedlings in the Oregon record heat wave...

Labor and liability/worker comp Insurance costs up especially when the public is invited to the farm.

That said it really does generate Christmas Spirit seeing several generations of families together with excited kids taking in the farm livestock and the 1948 Farmall has stars front and center in thousands of family holiday photos...

Last year was the best yet but it is almost like betting the farm in hope of good Thanksgiving to Christmas sales.

The day after Thanksgiving is crucial... bad weather is always a risk and discretionary spending is uncertain if economy stumbles...