McCombs School of Business

You may save your garden a lot of strife and your plants a lot of wear and tear if you do the picking. If you want to start a Christmas tree farm, you need to plan ahead. It takes approximately seven years for a Balsam fir–perhaps the most traditional Christmas tree–to grow from a small sapling to a 5- to 6-foot tree. Consumers come to the property, pick the one they want, and you harvest it for them.

• Transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, and shipping companies deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a