Whether you are a professional or backyard peach grower or simply a peach lover, "Everything About Peaches" provides both technical and popular information to quench your peach appetite.
Commercial Peach Grower
Research-based information for many of the technical peach production questions
Backyard Peach Grower
Tips, information and advice to become a sucessful backyard peach grower
Consumers' Corner
If you are looking for fresh peaches and how to use them, "Everything About Peaches" has got you covered!
Peach FAQ
Topics include historical facts, peaches in China, commercial production, scientific findings and more.
Desmond Layne reports on industry observations and assessments of protected cultivation of peach and nectarine in China (PDF)
February 22, 2013
Desmond Layne Named Mister Peach At Grower Conference
January 15, 2013
Q&A With Peach Expert Desmond Layne
Growing Produce, January 2013
(download a PDF of the article, 1.3MB)
2012 Research Report for Peach and Nectarine Evaluation Program
January 2, 2013
Clemson pomology professor speaks at international fruit conference | Manuscript (Adobe PDF)
October 29, 2012
Peach Doctor
South Carolina Stories, August 2012
view the PDF read the online story
Buy yours soon: Peach harvest coming in earlier than normal
South Carolina Radio Network, July 30, 2012
July 2012, American Fruit Grower magazine (PDF)
the sweet spot
Glimpse, Spring 2012
Desmond R. Layne received a national award for the NPR "All Things Considered" radio story
NACAA, July 16, 2012
Dr. Peach, Desmond Layne, was interviewed for All Things Considered.
CBS The Early Show: Georgia - South Carolina peach war
New York Times: Peach Rivalry Becomes War Between the Tastes
SC-ETV "Making It Grow" with Roland Alston which aired on July 31, 2012. The interview features a discussion between Dr. Desmond Layne and Mr. Roland Alston (program host) about the peach research program at the Clemson University Musser Fruit Research Farm in Seneca, SC.
Your Day is a public service radio program of Clemson University and ETV, providing programming in the NPR tradition, but with South Carolina flavor.
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American Fruit Grower Peach Columns
Stone Fruit - The Joy In Serving “Georgian” Peach Farmers
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