Moran speaks with Press Herald about state’s peach crop
Renae Moran, a tree fruit specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Portland Press Herald about Maine’s relatively small peach crop. Moran estimates there are about eight acres of peaches in the state compared with 2,000 acres of apple trees. In an ordinary year, the state’s climate is rough on the stone fruit, according to the article, and this year cold temperatures took a particular toll, with growers reporting from zero to 30 percent of a full crop, according to Moran. Highmoor Farm, UMaine Extension’s research orchard in Monmouth, got about 25 percent of its usual harvest, the article states.