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Christmas Tree Production
in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain
of North Carolina

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	Production General Information Growing Christmas Trees in North Carolina – includes marketing and economics information – PDF Crop Profile for Christmas Trees In North Carolina Piedmont & Coastal Plain PDF (This document is being updated.) Considerations for Starting a Choose and Cut Christmas Tree Farm Genetics and Propagation Christmas Tree Genetics Program Genetic Improvement of Christmas Trees PDF Genetic Improvement of Virginia Pine PDF Rooting Virginia Pine PDF Clonal Christmas Trees PDF Christmas Tree Species Christmas Tree Species for Eastern North Carolina – Eastern NC Christmas Tree Association Leyland Cypress CTN 021 Tree Seedling Sales – NC Department of Forest Resources Fertility Soil Testing and Interpretation of Results for Christmas Tree Plantations CTN 025 Soil and Plant Analysis for Christmas Trees AGW-439-46 Shearing Christmas Trees Shaping Virginia Pine Christmas Trees CTN 014B Pest Management General Information Using Agricultural Pesticides Safely – Christmas Trees – English PDF / Spanish PDF – CropLife Foundation & NCCTA Planning Emergency Response to Pesticide Spills – Christmas Trees PDF – CropLife Foundation & NCCTA Recycling Pesticide Containers – Christmas Trees PDF – CropLife Foundation & NCCTA Worker Protection Standard for the Use of Agricultural Pesticides – Christmas Trees PDF – CropLife Foundation & NCCTA Agricultural Crops Pest Management Information – Christmas Trees Scouting Fraser Fir in North Carolina AG-573 Information about Pesticides Used on Christmas Trees in North Carolina Pesticides and Wildlife in Christmas Trees Ag Chemical Manual PDF North Carolina Pest Management Information Program North Carolina Pest News Insect Management Asiatic Garden Beetle PDF – University of Massachusetts Bagworms Black Vine Weevil Cinara Aphids Japanese Beetle Nantucket Pine Tip Moth (NPTM) – USFS Insect Leaflet How to Time Dimethoate Sprays against the NPTM – Georgia Forestry Controlling NPTM Infestations – University of Georgia Pine Bark Adelgid Pine Tortoise Scale CTN 031 Red Fire Ant Two-lined Spittlebug White Pine Weevil Root Aphids - Woolly Ash Aphid IPM – University of Oregon Yellow Jackets Disease Management Needle Cast Diseases in Christmas Trees CTN 033 Diseases of Leyland Cypress Cercospora Needle Blight on Leyland Cyrpess – Auburn University Groundcovers and Weed Management Weeds Are Out – Groundcovers Are In! PDF Accomplishing Forest Stewardship with Hand-Applied Herbicides PDF Calibrating a Backpack Sprayer for Chemical Mowing Fact Sheet – PDF – CropLife Foundation & NCCTA Weed Management in Conifer Seedbeds and Transplant Beds HIL-449 Weed Identification Guide – Virginia Tech Deer Control Deer Control PDF Harvest Working Safely: Ergonomic Issues in Christmas Tree Harvest CTN 035 – PDF Commercial Storage of Christmas Trees PDF Post-Harvest Retail Tree Care: Simple Steps to Keeping Christmas Trees Fresh Post-Harvest Pests on Christmas Trees: Control on the Retail Lot – PDF Top
Eastern white pine genetic test in Pitt County, NC (coastal plain)

Ricky Jones (left) and Ralph Sasser in a Virginia pine genetic test at the Horticultural Crops Research Stateion, Clinton, NC

John Frampton beside a four-year-old Virginia pine elite selection

Virginia pine genetic test at the Piedmont Research Station, Salisbury, NC

Elite seleciton in the eastern white pine genetic test in Pitt County (coastal plain)

A meeting of the Eastern NC Tree Growers Association