An estimated three-fourths of the Texas fresh-market peach crop is lost to a severe freeze.
Temperatures in the low 20s in late March destroyed about 90% of peaches in the Fredericksburg, Texas, area, home to about half of Texas’ 3,000 fresh-market peach acres, said Dan Rohrer, president of Fredericksburg-based Rocky Hill Orchard and president of the Texas Fruit Growers Association.
Growers in east and southern Texas fared better than those in the central and western parts of the state, but overall losses still will total about 75% statewide, Rohrer said.
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