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Article: Chilton County, Ala., Peaches Smaller Than Usual Due to Low Rainfall.
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- Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)
- Article date:
- May 29, 2002
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Byline: Nick Lackeos
May 29--The new crop of Chilton County peaches is sweet and juicy, but slightly smaller than usual -- closer to golf balls than tennis balls in size -- because of skimpy spring rainfall, growers say.
"The dry weather affected the peaches -- the early peaches that we're picking now are smaller" and not as plentiful, said Jemison peach grower Charles Culp. Culp has 80 acres of peach orchards in Chilton County, where most of the state's peaches are produced.
Of the 13 million pounds of peaches produced statewide in 2000, 8.2 million pounds came from Chilton County, said Greg Herbeck, a spokesman at the Alabama Agricultural ...