Christmas Tree Demand News Reporter Here with your Southeast Regional Ag Report, I’m Tim Hammerich. Many small businesses are struggling this year due to the pandemic. One group that is thriving, however, are choose-and-cut Christmas Tree Farms. Business has been booming, and many growers in Alabama are already sold out according to Auburn University assistant professor Jeremy Pickens. Pickens… “In Alabama, we don't grow the firs like you might find at the box stores and some of the Christmas tree lots. We grow, used to be Virginia pine. Mainly now it's Leyland Cypress, so that's kind of the Southern Christmas tree. So they're mainly what they call a 'choose-and-cut' operations. So you go out yourself, you pick it out and you cut it down or you may pay, you know, a high school kid. So you go out there to the farm and pick it out yourself.”