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Default Clueless Kroger Pushed Peach Products in Illinois

On 10/20/2018 12:20 PM, Cheri wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message news:2THyD.157219
>
>> Yes, and expect the price of peaches to go up.* Hurricane Michael did
>> a real number on the peach trees.
>>
>> Jill

>
>
> Probably a lot of things going up with Michael, I don't really use
> peaches at all anymore, but I do like them. Before my next door neighbor
> died a few years ago, she had wonderful peaches on her backyard tree
> which she shared. I haven't really had a good supermarket peach, so I
> quit buying them.
>
> Cheri


It will affect the Georgia peach industry and likely South Carolina.
Also the peanut crop. There are *lots* of peanuts grown in this part of
the South:

https://www.albanyherald.com/news/lo...160ad258d.html

or:

https://tinyurl.com/y9kxxmdr

Expect the price of peanut butter to go up after Hurricane Micheal.
Also summer squashes.

Jill