The Real Christmas Tree Board

The Real Christmas Tree Board is a national promotion and research organization funded by North American Christmas tree growers.
The Real Christmas Tree Board is a national promotion and research organization funded by North American Christmas tree growers.
The Real Christmas Tree Board is a national promotion and research organization funded by North American Christmas tree growers.
The Real Christmas Tree Board is a national promotion and research organization funded by North American Christmas tree growers.
Programs

Promotion

To support the mission of creating greater demand for Christmas trees, the RCTP presents a creative promotional campaign.

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Research

The RCTP has invested or committed more than $1.2 million in a slate of research projects designed to benefit the entire industry.

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Ashley Ahl, Northern Family Farms

We’re excited to see the industry support

We’re excited to see the industry support new marketing efforts that will help reach the next generation of real tree buyers. It’s nice to know that research dollars are available to find better genetics and chemicals that reduce production costs for growers.

Carrie Chefas McClain, Hart-T-Tree Farms, NC

We must employ new strategies to compete in an ever-changing marketplace

As a second-generation Christmas tree farmer, I believe that we must employ new strategies to compete in an ever-changing marketplace.  The Christmas Tree Promotion Board is a vital part of that.

Jim Corliss, ME

CTPB, in the next decade, will begin to revive an industry

I believe that with funds provided by Christmas Tree growers themselves, the CTPB, in the next decade, will begin to revive an industry which has been slowly declining over the past 40 to 50 years

Betty Malone, Sunrise Tree Farm, OR

Our real competition is the plastic tree

Our real competition is the plastic tree and not some other farm down the road or in another state. Having lost so much of market share to plastic trees, we have had to band together in a new way to promote our industry and ...

Jeff Darling, Darling’s Tree Farm, NY

Christmas tree industry has joined other communities

I am pleased that the Christmas tree industry has joined countless other agricultural communities by joining our resources to improve and promote our product. I know that our farm has benefited from repeated collaboration in the past. I believe that this type of cooperation ...

Cline Church, Cline Church Nursery, NC

I feel very positive about the future of our industry

Now that the check off has passed, I feel very positive about the future of our industry.  We will be able to fund research both for growing trees and for marketing.  Now the board can continue all the positive programs ...

Wilson Barr, Barr Evergreens, NC

I am excited that my son and grandchildren will reap the benefits

As a first generation Christmas tree grower I am excited that my son and grandchildren will reap the benefits of a continued promotion of real tree and research that address the many challenges our industry faces. Past and future ...

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