How our warm winter is impacting Hill Country peaches

FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (KXAN) — The peach sorting machine is rolling at Vogel Orchard’s roadside stand. Terri Vogel, who runs the stand with her husband, is the second generation to keep the farm of 7,000 peach trees going.
The past three years have been bumper crop summers. This season, however, is expected to produce fewer peaches, because our winter has been so warm.
Winter ’16-’17 was Austin’s warmest winter on record. This year, our first freeze was mo