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Why It's the Year of the Pumpkin

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    FBN's Jeff Flock on the drought’s impact on the pumpkin harvest.

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-- it is wouldn't it have been few successes than a year when severe drought -- to most of the nation's heartland barbers are sitting on -- smashing really good.

-- apartments are -- -- lots is in Illinois with the details.

And very few of the Melissa are smashed this year it's because it's been dry out here and it's a little wet right now by the web what to have -- is -- press agent to -- the nice thing she says I hope she would say nice things about me too I'm with Kevin -- out.

In the nation's heart of pumpkin country -- -- Kevin -- some white ones that hear what what they call those.

Others are full moon full moon pumpkins you take a look at the impact of the drought on say corn prices that prices stabilize somewhat.

They jumped up because of the drought bad news for a lot of people but for for a -- -- farmers.

Your biggest enemy is wet correct.

Yeah I would it's what it's really not the best for pumpkins and so this year and I take Kevin gross.

Ninety different varieties look at this when that's a green one what the heck is that that's a -- teller.

A fairy tale -- they call -- if you look over here maybe Tim pans over this way you see some other was one of those -- it looked.

The -- there as a call to rumpus.

Rumba is okay very good -- panoply of different kinds of pumped -- because of the dry eye conditions.

Well a lot of these pumpkins as -- say we just had a rainstorm come through here that won't really heard it that much right now because they've done their growing.

The corn farmers would love to be you right now him.

Have a crop that.

Likes the driveway yeah absolutely it's kind of -- -- for your for the corn crop especially at the two week when a for pollination that that.

But conceptually -- a lot better in a dry season.

Okay it is the year of the pumpkin guys.

Very cool off with that it would Jeff Flock thank you so much that -- of their couple giant -- that's a lot to carve.

But equivalent say you know it's not a battle at all what -- -- lot -- -- to see a huge mess -- that it's.

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