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Year looks good for Texas peach cropWEATHERFORD, Texas (AP)--Texas could be heading for a bumper peach crop in 2010 after several years of so-so yields because of poor weather conditions, experts said. Gary Hutton of Hutton Farms, the largest peach producer in Parker County, said his crop hasn't been this good since 2006. "It's the best crop in years,'' Hutton told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The former banker says peaches should be plentiful for the July 10 Parker County Peach Festival in Weatherford, about 30 miles west of Fort Worth. His family has operated orchards for 30 years. Jim Kamas, a fruit specialist with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service office in Gillespie County, where about 40 percent of the Texas peach crop is produced, said he expects a "banner year.'' Kamas, a Texas A&M assistant professor, told the newspaper that the weather has been cooperated this year, after several years of late spring frosts, flooding and drought. "It's about time,'' he said. "We've had a run of low chilling years, late spring frosts, spring floods and then the worst drought in recorded history. It has been pretty rough,'' he said.
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