Bloomberg Law
December 23, 2019, 11:00 AM UTC

Christmas Tree Farmers Worry About Life Without Chlorpyrifos

Adam Allington
Adam Allington
Reporter

While atrazine, carbaryl, and chlorpyrifos don’t roll off the tongue like Dasher, Prancer, and Vixen, in many ways they’re as central to the Christmas experience as any team of Yuletide ungulates.

Most of us probably don’t pause to consider what it takes to produce some 25 million healthy green Christmas trees in the U.S. per year.

In most cases it takes chemical pesticides, lots of them. Now a growing number of tree farmers worry they may soon find themselves without access to one of their most important chemicals—chlorpyrifos.

Several states, including California and New York, have announced bans on the ...

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