Weeks after heavy rains deluged the farm, a tractor remains stuck in the mud-caked fields at Doak Orchards in Montague County.
Some 60 miles south in Parker County, at Hutton Fruit Farm, owner Gary Hutton slipped on rain boots and picked peaches on foot because the fields were too muddy to maneuver by tractor.
Yet despite a few weather-induced obstacles from one of the wettest springs on record, some growers say this is a banner year for peaches, a notoriously fickle crop.
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