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.

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.

Although Georgia’s most famous fruit takes center stage during the summer, farms put months of labor into growing, packing, baking and canning peach and peach products in preparation for ...

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.

The Georgia peach crop is having a terrible year so far due to storms and weather, and experts have determined that the state's world-famous peach crop may be down as much as 80 percent as a result.

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.

The peaches hail from Dickey Farms in Musella, Georgia—one of the oldest peach farms in the U.S., with roots dating back to 1897. “They picked their first peaches in 1900,” Smith said.