Georgia could lose up to 95 percent of its peach harvest due to erratic weather
Georgian growers are having a hard time cultivating their famous stone fruit. Thanks to climate change, peach crops are struggling. Some experts are estimating losses of 95 percent this year.
“We’ve had some off crops, some bad years,” said Lawton Pearson, a fifth-generation peach farmer. “But we hadn’t had anything quite like this since 1955 … We just don’t have a
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