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Mild winter hurts peach crop in parts of Texas

Experts say the mild Texas winter hampered this year’s peach crop in parts of the state. Texas orchards down south and east had issues, plants that did not get enough chill hours have been slow to leaf out, leading to poorly developed fruit or no fruit at all, officials said.

For Marty Mika, H-E-B grocery chain’s business development manager-produce, the lack of a Texas peach crop has meant searching for the summer fruit on both the East and West coasts.

The grocer has peaches in stores from South Carolina and California and plans to have them from Washington state later this summer.

“It’s been a challenging year,” Mika said. “I really feel for the Texas peach folks. It seems like they’ve had more challenging years than not.”

source: wacotrib.com