It has been a difficult year for Alabama farmers after dealing with the freezing temperatures back in March. This caused some farms in Chilton County to lose their entire peach crop, while others have been able to get a percentage of their crop.
At Mountain View Orchards some peaches, like the July Prince, are doing well and will be ready to be picked. Farmer Andy Millard: "We got all these peaches beside it that are small, that was freeze damage, even peaches up to that size, the seed is ruptured, it'll grow to a certain point and quit growing.”
Millard said the mid-season peaches are making up for some of the loss, but it's still short. Currently they have about 25% of their crop.
"The March freeze was tough, we did what we could, we flew helicopters trying to protect our crops but if we didn't have the mid-season peaches we have, you can see we are in July Prince, it's pretty heavy and we have a couple of varieties in this season we're picking quite a bit of peaches, but nothing compared to what we normally, so they are making up for some of the loss of other varieties, but it's pretty short.”
Source: abc3340.com
