Fewer and fewer Christmas tree farms in Louisiana
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The number of Christmas tree farms in Louisiana has fallen like needles from an unwatered tree. There will be at least one less next year.
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Florida will have the smallest orange crop in a decade after a series of hurricanes blew fruit off trees and flooded groves in the state that produces 75 percent of the nation&#39;s citrus, a federal forecast released Tuesday shows.
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Sales at U.S. retailers fell 0.4  percent in December and were less vigorous in November than  previously thought, according to a government report on Tuesday  that implied costlier energy and slumping housing prices were  taking a toll on consumers.
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Renee McDonald remembers the Christmas trees of her youth: spindly, fake and out of a box. They were hard to put up, and they just didn&#39;t smell right.
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CLOVIS, Calif. -- Bins of Granny Smith apples towered over two conveyor belts at P-R Farms' packing plant. But only one belt moved. The farm, like others nationwide, does not have enough workers to process its fruit.
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By Jack Brubaker  Some very tasty slop for hogs Not preaching about evolution Glass plate negatives preserved  Five oak trees along North Duke and East Orange streets by the Lancaster County Library and St. James Episcopal Church have no life left in them.
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Some surveys find that as of last weekend, consumers had completed less than 15 percent of their holiday shopping.
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Sold-out Christmas tree lots and  packed parking garages at malls during peak hours at first  glance may suggest a merrier Christmas for retailers, but they  are actually signs the holiday season may be a mixed one for  U.S. retailers, analysts said.
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The Leyland cypress tree is a hybrid of Monterey cypress and Alaskan cedar that has become a popular premium tree in the south. (National Christmas Tree Association).
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Florida will have the smallest orange crop in a decade after a series of hurricanes blew fruit off trees and flooded groves in the state that produces 75 percent of the nation's citrus, a federal forecast released yesterday shows.
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There are more Christmas trees than people in Colebrook, N.H. There are 500,000 trees alone at Weir Tree Farms, a family-owned farm considered to be the town's largest - that's 200 times more trees than Colebrook's population of 2,500.
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The Christmas tree decorations were being rehung at Pasco County buildings Friday after the reversal of a county attorney's finding that the trees were unacceptable religious symbols.
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Now that the Thanksgiving feast is over, many people are getting ready to deck the halls and put up their Christmas tree. Some Christmas tree farmers are working even harder to compete with artificial trees.
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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Because of hurricane damage, Florida&#39;s grapefruit crop this season will be the smallest since the Depression, and its orange crop the worst in 13 years, agriculture officials said in a forecast issued Friday.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 3--GAUTIER -- Sam Taylor said more than 1,000 dead trees have been removed from residential properties across Gautier, and at least 250 more could be removed by the end of June.
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PARIS -- Grape vines in the Champagne region are sagging this year with an abundance of fruit. But this won't mean increased supply -- or cheaper bottles of bubbly for consumers.