{"id":42145,"date":"2021-12-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/?p=42145"},"modified":"2025-06-24T17:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:57:30","slug":"new-york-times-why-do-christmas-trees-cost-more-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/in-the-news\/new-york-times-why-do-christmas-trees-cost-more-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>New York Times <\/span> Why Do Christmas Trees Cost More This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Along with much else on the holiday shopping list, Christmas trees, both real and fake, are more expensive this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices for live cut trees have been creeping up and will run 5 to 10 percent higher, on average, than last year, said Doug Hundley, a seasonal spokesman for the National Christmas Tree Association, a trade group for tree growers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But fears of mass tree shortages are unwarranted, said Marsha Gray, executive director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ams.usda.gov\/rules-regulations\/research-promotion\/christmas-trees\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Christmas Tree Board<\/a>, a marketing and research group funded by growers and overseen by the Agriculture Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/03\/your-money\/christmas-trees-cost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">READ FULL ARTICLE &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are fewer tree farms these days, and some were hit by severe weather. Plus, both real and fake trees have been affected by higher shipping costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61917,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42145\/revisions\/61917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realchristmastreeboard.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}