User talk:IvoShandor/Christmas tree farm
Sources
[edit]United States
[edit]- UIUC extension
- History of the Christmas tree
- Live Christmas tree a holiday tradition: for cultural significance section
- Cutting a Christmas tree not always bad if you do it right
- Introduction to growing Christmas trees in Virginia
- Hispanic Labor in North Carolina’s Christmas Tree Industry: Employer and Laborer Perspectives
- Christmas trees is this crop for you?
- National Agricultural Library - Christmas trees
- Safety in Christmas tree production
- National Resources Conservation Service - Christmas tree facts
- Woodland Crops: 1997 and 2002
- U.S. Census PR: many links to good sources
- Tree grades USDA
- NH grades: growers use their own systems, based on USDA
- More on grades: seems to recommend "basing" grades on USDA standard unless both customer and producer know the USDA ones.
- Same as above: plus harvest information
- WSU: a wealth of links and information
- Various links, Miss St. Univ
- Christmas Tree Area of Expertise Team: Michigan State University
- USDA essay on economics of tree farms
- Live trees
Canada
[edit]- Ontatio Xmas tree production
- Number grown
- Christmas tree production: Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Ministry
- Govt sales stats
- Import/export restrictions
U.K.
[edit]- Guardian
- British Christmas Tree Growers Association
- BBC
- Effects of tree shortage
- Northern Ireland Forest Service
- Christmas trees: NETREGS
- [Legal issues in UK
- Value and acerage of crop
Europe
[edit]Images
[edit]- Image:ChristmasTreeFarm.jpg
- [1]: VA tree farm source
- [2]: MO aerial shot source
Cultural/sentimental
[edit]- Tennessee tree farms: govt release
- Tree farm traditions: article
- New Hampshire article
- Farragut, TN article
- Florida article
- Topeka article: Christmas tree selection transcends things such as "weather" and "economy." Pish posh.
- State AG talks of tradition in NY
- More blathering about tradition
Australia
[edit]Real v. fake (and the market)
[edit]- Scripps Howard: 2005
- AP: 2004
- ABC News: 2004 Poll
- Smith Harroff agency overview
- Wall Street Journal: 2006
- 80s and 90s oversupply: KGW 8 News: 2006
- New York Times: 1992, oversupply
- OSU market info and other stuff]
- Including Canada —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvoShandor (talk • contribs) 10:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
History
[edit]- New York Times: 1990: gives name and founding info on first farm
- Info on first commercial Xmas tree market
Environment
[edit]Legal
[edit]Canada
[edit]- Net farm income after reclassifying Xmas tree farms —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvoShandor (talk • contribs) 09:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
- CFIA: Canadian laws —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvoShandor (talk • contribs) 06:32, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
United States
[edit]- Classification: Washington state
- Classification: Washington state
- Classification: Wisconsin
- Occupational classification: DOL
- Forest law and tree farms
- Ohio Board of tax appeals: fuzzy nature of definitions
- Are not farm products, US DOL
- Now they are: USDA
- Federal crop disaster insurance —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvoShandor (talk • contribs) 21:30, 6 September 2007 (UTC)