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Peach crop withstanding freezing temperatures so far
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Drew Echols inspects the blooms in Jaemor Farms’ peach orchards on a chilly Monday morning. The hard freeze in this week’s forecast may keep Echols and other farmers anxious about this season’s peach crop.
Freezing temperatures may be putting a damper on your Easter egg hunt, but fear not, the peach crop is doing OK — at least so far. Drew Echols, Jaemor Farms manager, said some early varieties are blooming, but even if a freeze this week killed all the open blooms at the Alto farm, they’d still be in great shape. “Is it ideal?