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Is theft/security an issue for you? Mature Christmas trees must be one of the highest-value crops you can steal from a farm, and one of the easiest to fence.
by dmurray 6y ago
Is theft/security an issue for you? Mature Christmas trees must be one of the highest-value crops you can steal from a farm, and one of the easiest to fence.
- gruez 6y ago>Mature Christmas trees must be one of the highest-value crops you can steal from a farm If you have the equipment/motivation to steal christmas trees, you probably could be stealing animals too. Those are proabbly worth even more than christmas trees, probably several hundred dollars each.
- dmurray 6y agoHarder to dispose of, though. You'll need to be in league with a crooked farmer, slaughterhouse or livestock mart if you want to sell the animal alive. You can sell Christmas trees on the side of the road, no questions asked.
- beerandt 6y agoOne type of theft at choose and cut is often just cutting the top out of a much larger tree, and attempting to only pay for the size of what they cut. People with 7-8' ceilings cut the top 6' out of a 12' tree bc they didn't like any of the younger trees.
- nradov 6y agoThe farm where I buy my Christmas trees charges the same flat price regardless of size.
- beerandt 6y agoThere are pros and cons to the different business models, but in this case, if you think of it as a matching/sorting type of problem, it's inefficient and wasteful, in a logistical/Nash equilibrium sort of way. Which doesn't always mean it's the wrong way, from a business perspective. But if you're charging by height, it's leaving money on the table.
- rdj 6y agoIt's not an issue on our farm. We have eyes on most of the property most of the time. We also don't stock any precuts, so a thief has to come on the property and do some amount of work to steal a single tree.