United States | Slim pickings
Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year
But the fuzzy fruit is more cultural icon than economic export
|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.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Slim pickings”
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