GEORGIA -- Midsummer is the peak of juicy peach season in the state of Georgia. But, recently, the Peach Cobbler Factory in Atlanta ran out of peaches and was forced to pivot to… apple cobbler.

For the past decade, unpredictable winters have wreaked havoc on Georgia’s peaches. But farmers are adapting, with new methods and peach varieties that rely on timing.

According to the University of Georgia, Georgia typically produces more than 130 million pounds of peaches a year. The peach season runs from mid-May to mid-August.

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.

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As a result, more than 90 percent of Georgia’s peach crop was wiped out. It’s one of the worst peach harvests the state has seen in the past two decades.

For the past decade, unpredictable winters have wreaked havoc on Georgia’s peaches. But farmers are adapting, with new methods and peach varieties that rely on timing.

Before 2017, Georgia farmers were used to about 1,100 chill hours per winter. Since then, they have been getting an average of 850, Pearson says. Not only do the warm spells encourage early ...