All that wet summer weather may come back to haunt anyone who wants to pick a pumpkin for Halloween.
CBS 2 North Suburban Bureau Chief Katie McCall reports, some pumpkin farms lost part of their crop to the soggy ground.
John Didier’s farm in Prairie View lost some of its crop to this summer’s storms.
“Pumpkins like it on the hot and dry side, and we had that a little this year, but we had a wet August and that affected it,” Didier said.
He lost about 30% of his pumpkins to flooding, but between his farm and another in DeKalb County, Didier says he has enough to meet the demand of customers like Cameron Cohen.
The 4-year-old searched fo…
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