Experts say climate change is contributing to warmer winters and causing farmers in Georgia and the rest of the nation to have to adapt their agricultural techniques. Unfortunately, that doesn’t guarantee success. An unusually warm stretch of weather during January and February, followed by cold snaps in March devastated the state’s peach crop. Pam Knox in an Agricultural Climatologist with the University of Georgia Extension.
She says that weather pattern is one we can expect to see more of in the future.
Knox says more than 90 percent of the state’s peach crop was lost.
