Staff Writer The recent heavy rain in May and June could affect Chilton County’s prized peach crop in three main ways according to seasoned professionals in the field. In May, Chilton received ...

The peach tree outside my office has been showing signs of a disease that runs rampant on stone fruit trees, brown rot. This disease is fungal in nature and can kill all the peaches on the tree in ...

Hard rain can wash the skin off a peach. “We feel pretty well blessed they’ve missed us,” Tracey said. “We’ve just had to spray to stay ahead of the rot,” Mickey said. “We’ve been ...

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The race against rot. Georgia peaches really are different, their flavor more intense and their shelf life shorter than that of grocery store rivals. Most come from just five farms in Peach ...

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) - Clemson University has received a grant for research aimed at preventing a fungus that eats the roots of peach trees ... called oak root rot. Scientists have studied the ...