After Georgia endured record-breaking warmth this winter, local farmer's peach harvests have been wiped out in a way not seen in decades.
As a fifth-generation peach farmer at the core of Georgia’s peach-growing region, he knows how fickle growing the state’s signature fruit can be.Yet after Georgia endured record-breaking warmth this winter, Pearson’s peach harvest was wiped out in a way not seen in decades. His 1,700 acres of peach trees are yielding only about a tenth to a twentieth of what they should have.
“We know in Georgia that winter is the season that’s warming the most quickly,” said Pam Knox, an agricultural climatologist at the University of Georgia. “It’s warming about twice as fast as any of the other seasons.”Here’s the irony about the peach, that quintessential summertime stone fruit: It needs the cold.
Then many of his peaches stopped growing at about the size of a golf ball — or just started dropping off the tree. “Slowly but surely, a good amount of those peaches have abandoned their growth,”That combination of weather events — a warm winter followed by deep freezes — was something Georgia peach farmers didn’t think about in the past.
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