AUSTIN (May 20, 2013)–A combination of weather events has Central Texas peach farmers expecting a meager crop once again this season, after several years of little yield because of the weather.
About 90 percent of the Gillespie County peach crop was wiped out by a warmer-than-normal winter, two late freezes and a hailstorm that pummeled the few peaches that remained on the trees.
About 40 percent of the state’s peaches come from Gillespie County where average yield has dropped from about 200 bushels per acre in good seasons to about a third of that in more recent years.
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