Cold Weather Damages South Carolina Peach Crop – WJBF-TV ABC 6 Augusta-Aiken News, Weather, Sports

Ridge Spring, SC – Chalmers Carr, owner of Titan Farms says, “Well it’s very stressful, but there’s nothing you can do about it. We can run a little bit of irrigation. Some guys have some wind machines, they can do stuff like that. But it is a matter of degrees.”

Chalmers Carr says a late-Winter hard freeze damaged a quarter of his peach crop.

“We did have a freeze in late-March that gave us a little bit of crop damage. So overall I’d say we have 75% of our crop. We lost some of our early varieties due to that, especially in some low-lying areas,” said Carr.

This peach crop was hit hard by an early Spring cold snap…

The mercury dropped to 28 degrees on back-to-back nights back on March27 and 28th-That’s about 15 degrees below average.

Those freezing temperatures damaged these peaches permanently.

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