united states department of agriculture's us to to stick service and the national christmas tree foundation yes there is a grand national christmas tree foundation there are approximately twenty five to thirty million twenty five to thirty million real christmas trees sold in the u.s. every year there are close to three hundred fifty million real christmas trees currently growing on christmas tree farms in the u.s. alone they're all planted by farmers on close to fifteen thousand farms and about three hundred fifty thousand acres are used as we said in our answer to our quiz the top christmas tree producing states are oregon north carolina michigan pennsylvania wisconsin washington state and there are over a one hundred thousand christmas tree jobs in the u.s. eighty percent of the artificial trees are made in china and there are of course made from non-biodegradable plastics they can be used for many years perhaps we need to buy a great degradable christmas tree although i guess it wouldn't last for that long certainly is not of long as the other the existing by the existing trees the artificial trees that is