ST. LOUIS, Mo. — While Christmas tree farms have plenty of firs, pines and spruces this holiday season, customers should expect to see an uptick in prices due to inflation.

Pea Ridge Forest, located in Hermann, Mo. is celebrating 50 years as a family-owned wholesale tree farm and nursery. The farm is where families can harvest their own Christmas tree.

Every weekend, Pea Ridge Forest offers a different field of trees for customers to select from, including Norway spruces, White Pines, Virginia Pines, Scotch pines, pitch loblolly and loblolly pines.

Co-owner Scott Rood said there are 3,000 trees for customers this season, however, with the rise in labor and chemical costs, prices will increase by 10%.

“The cost of everything that we put into this is astronomical. It’s just going up so much,” Rood said. “It’s not like you plant a tree and wait eight years and poof it’s there. There’s a lot of work that goes into it.”

Frasier firs are brought in for customers to buy at Pea Ridge Forest and those are up in price by 20% because of the limited supply, according to Rood.

“For the trees that we buy in, the supply is still extremely tight in the U.S. The market is really tight, so the prices went up for the Frasier firs,” he said.

The hike in prices are on par with the nationwide trend, according to a survey conducted by the industry group the Real Christmas Tree Board in conjunction with FleishmanHillard.

The survey was completed in August where two-thirds of the country's real Christmas tree growers, or 55 wholesalers, participated, according to an online press release.

Seventy-one percent of growers anticipate raising wholesale prices between 5% and 15% compared to last year and 11% of growers say they plan to increase prices up to 5% from last year. Another 11% of growers plan to raise prices between 16% to 20% with only a few expecting to raise prices by 21%.

Less than 2% of growers said they do not expect to increase prices.

“All respondents estimate their input costs have increased compared to last year. The most frequently cited range of increase was 11% to 15% (36% of respondents), but more than a quarter (27%) put it even higher, at 16% to 20% compared to last year’s input costs,” the press release states.

“Another quarter (25%) said such costs have gone up as much as 10% year-over-year. And 10% of respondents put it higher still, with their year-over-year estimated increase coming in at more than 21%.”

Since Christmas tree cutting has become an annual holiday tradition for many families, Rood does not believe the uptick in prices will hold customers back. He noted that the increase in prices have been announced on the farm’s social media and newsletter.

“It’s really nice to see families get together because families nowadays rarely have time or inclination to get together to spend with one another and just not have that cell phone or iPad attached to their hand. This allows everybody to get together in a nice, relaxed atmosphere and just have fun,” Rood said.