Weather may cut Texas peach crop – Houston Chronicle

via Weather may cut Texas peach crop – Houston Chronicle.

Two-timing Texas weather could leave peach lovers feeling jilted this summer.

Growers say the prized summer crop could be barely a quarter of its normal size because of warmer-than-usual winter temperatures in the prime growing regions, followed by an ill-timed freeze that killed many fruit blossoms in their most vulnerable stage of life.

“We’ve definitely had some damage,” said Larry Stein, a Texas A&M University Agri-Life Extension horticulturist in Uvalde. “A lot of fruit has been lost, but there are still some peaches around.”

With the short supply, consumers could pay more when the peaches start showing up in late May, another AgriLife spokesman predicted.