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100 bushels of peaches and thinks he has 100 more coming. He is getting a good price for them: about $15 per bushel. Last year he got $6 ot $7 per bushel. “This is one of the worst years we’ve ever had. I never thought I could sell peaches for $15 (per bushel); if they (the store owners) didn’t think they were getting a good buy, they wouldn’t buy themJenkins said.
Because peaches will command a high price when scarce, Jenkins said that one third of a normal crop this year would have been worth a full crop last year. He noted, however, that there will be nothing close to one third of a normal crop this year. Referring to peaches, Jenkins said “If the Good Lord intended us to have 'em, we’d have 'em."
Louis Moore, Jr. of Washington, who owns and operates a 10-acre peach orchard with his father, said he gathered a grand total of one bushel in a 4acre block. He expects to pick about 100 bushels in the remaining 6 acres of his orchard. “That’s rough,” he said. “There just am’t going to be many. I knew it was bad.”
According to Moore, this year is definitely the worst he can remember. “Peaches are so doggone fragile you have to handle them like a basket of eggs.”
Alice Wood of Washington owns and operates a five-acre peach orchard. So far she has picked between 15 and 20 bushels of peaches. She said the ones that made it were very early peaches such as Dwanes, which surprised her because “they aren't supposed to be a hardy peach.” The few bushels she has picked she has sold for $7 per bushel. Normally she sells them for $4 to $6 per bushel. It depends on the peach, she said.
“In my filne I have never seen anything like this,” Wood remarked, referring to the disastrous harvest. But “you’ve got to swing with it in the orchard business.”
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