As Halloween approaches, pumpkin farmers are in a particularly scary situation as they face mass crop failures following extreme weather conditions. Heavy rain and increasingly unpredictable climate conditions have left the UK's pumpkin growers with smaller or in some cases barely any pumpkins this year. This situation is dire, as many farmers are struggling with severe reductions in yield, predicting less than 10 percent of what they would normally expect to harvest.
Jonathan Hewitt, a farmer from the Dunham Massey estate, describes this year as the worst in his experience, seeing nearly complete crop failure. "In all my years, this was absolutely the worst one for pumpkins. We were hoping for 40,000, but we've seen about a 90 percent failure rate; it's off the scale harsh. The weather has really taken a toll on our crops this year, leaving us and consumers in a tough situation."
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