The Peach State earned its name over a century ago from the booming peach production that has spanned multiple generations, ...

For Okie, who grew up in Georgia and whose father worked as a peach breeder for the USDA, the looming loss of the state’s symbolic fruit evokes a sort of weariness.

Georgia is known as the Peach State but warming winters means fewer chill hours needed for fruit. ... Down a dirt road lined with peach and pecan trees, ... the Belle of Georgia and the Elberta.

Peach farmers in Georgia say they're seeing one of the best crops in a long time this year. It comes after many farmers have lost much of their peach crops in the last few seasons. MCDONOUGH, Ga.

The 2023 Georgia peach harvest is looking bad, although the details are sketchy. By some accounts, it's the worst since 1955. ... Georgia, to help combat peach tree short life.

How to grow a peach tree Select a spot that receives at least six to eight hours of sunlight daily and test the soil's pH. Peaches require a reading between 6.5 and 7.0.

Move over peaches -- the citrus industry is now booming in Georgia A decade ago, the state had 4,700 citrus trees. Today it has more than half a million. ©2024 Cox Media Group ...

Egged on by Georgia’s warmest winter on record to start 2023, most peach trees in the state had full blooms or even small fruit out by mid-March, when back-to-back freeze events struck.

"A peach tree needs chill hours. On average 800 to 1000 chill hours, anything below 45-degree. When it’s below 45-degrees, that peach tree is storing up chill hours," Carter said.

The Peach State will have less of its signature fruit to provide the U.S. this summer as Georgia is grappling with a peach crop shortage due to warmer winter months. Georgia lost over 90% of its ...