CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (KAIT) – Last month’s brutal cold snap likely destroyed this year’s peach crop, an Arkansas agriculture expert warns.
Amanda McWhirt, extension fruit horticulture specialist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, said weeks of warm weather ahead of mid-March’s 20-degree weather left the state’s peach crop vulnerable.
“Unfortunately, peaches in many parts of the state had broken bud and were in full bloom,” McWhirt said, adding that peach blooms are typically damaged around 27 degrees Fahrenheit…