Posted on 09/01/2017 11:46:36 AM PDT by Dacula
MUSELLA, Georgia — Georgia’s peach industry suffered staggering losses this year — 85 percent of the crop wiped out by a winter that never get cold enough for the fruit to grow and ripen properly. The lingering question: was this a harbinger of climate change and many warmer winters to come? Or was it just the sort of bad luck that Georgia farmers have seen come and go ever since people began tilling the soils here? Robert Lee “Mr. Bob” Dickey, the patriarch of a family that grows a thousand acres of peaches in Middle Georgia, doesn’t hold with this talk of climate change. He’s seen every kind of weather in his 89 years and knows how unpredictable it can be. But, as has been said in a very different context, winter is coming. Will this one be cold enough? Read this in-depth report on the state of the Peach State, written by Inside Climate News and shared with the AJC.
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Didn’t most peach production move north to South Carolina years ago?
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Climate change causes stupidity ???
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Do I have to keep reading?
Hood River, Oregon did NOT even PICK cherries in many orchards...that’s how bad it was. It happens. Farming is tough...weather is a wild card.
They used to raise oranges in South Georgia many decades ago, then it got too cold and all the orange groves froze.
Same with North Florida. You can still see the remnants of dead orange groves along I-10 east of Tallahassee.
So, yeah, the ‘climate changed’....IT GOT COLDER!...................
Peaches did not do well here. I do not have peach trees but I do have plums. They were loaded with blooms but it turned cool and I may have had a handful,. It happens. My fig trees were loaded. I love fruit.
Every year the news is how bad the peach crop is around Fredericksburg, TX due to the weather - too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. Except this year.
All farmers are always on the edge of losing their whole crop if something does happen or doesn’t stop happening. Even in years when the result is a bumper crop.
> Did climate change decimate Georgia’s peach crop in 2017? <
Yes, of course it did! Climate change is also causing my cat to shed more. It is also causing the fluffy clouds in the sky to take on scary shapes. I could list even more things, but I’ve got to log off. I’ve got an appointment with my psychiatrist in half an hour.
No.
Next question.
Weather affects crops.
There is NO “Man-made Climate Change”.
The central valley of California dwarfs Georgia peach production.
And winters here never drop below 27deg.
How many variables can one pretend to deal with in equations involving climate?
Hope not.
There's nothing like a ripe Georgia peach!
Stupidity creates "climate change"
To wet, to dry, to cold, to hot. But mostly it comes down the weather not being just right for a critical few days.
Just several days of mild sporadic rain and you can lose the hay crop. Oh, it is still there, but the nutritional value has dropped by half.
Was just there and picked up some roadside vendor cherries. They were simply amazing!
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