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Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year

But the fuzzy fruit is more cultural icon than economic export

Peaches grow at an orchard in Georgia, USA.
A rare sightImage: Getty Images
|Peach County

On a Monday in March Robert Dickey went to bed feeling sick to his stomach. After a few tropical weeks the temperature was dropping, and when it got numbingly cold, he knew that his thousand acres of blooming peach trees would be icy by morning.

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