Georgia Growers Producing ‘Flavorful’ Peach Crop
It’s peak peach season, and a Georgia growers says this year’s crop is especially tasty.
Duke Lane III, the president of the Georgia Peach Council, describes the peaches he’s eaten this year from the Georgia orchard owned by his family as the perfect of blend of sugars and acids.
“Flavor is grand this year. It’s kind of a vintage year for Georgia peaches with regards to flavor,” says Lane.
He says the dry weather in June contributed to this year’s perfect-tasting peaches.
“When you get a lack of rainfall I would say the sugars are less diluted and you can really experience the flavors better.”
Despite this year’s sweet harvest, there are fewer peaches than normal.
“Because we had that freeze during the first months of the year, we lost about 30 percent of the volume. That was basically across the board,” says Dario Chavez, an assistant professor of peach research and extension at the University of Georgia..
But despite that loss, Chavez and Lane say there will be a steady stream of peaches through the middle of next month.
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