Intro: | Take the kids to buy pumpkins early this year because heavy rain hurt central Missouri's pumpkin harvest. |
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Wrap: The large amount of rain this season ruined some central Missouri pumpkin crops.
Mackey Produce owner Calvin Mackey says the rain completely destroyed his pumpkin patch.
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Run Time: | 00:07 |
Description: "Vines didn't produce any pumpkins and the few pumpkins we did produce rotted on the bottoms. So we had a total crop failure." |
Pumpkin patches in northern Missouri told a different story.
A pumpkin patch owner in St. Joseph said his crop had one of the biggest harvests ever.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Rebecca Stephen.
Intro: | Heavy rainfall made it rough for Missouri farmers who did not apply the right fungicides this growing season. |
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Wrap: Large amounts of rain hurt pumpkin patches in Missouri.
Schweizer (SCH-WEISS-ER) Orchard owner Corey Schweizer (SCH-WEISS-ER) says his orchard only had a big harvest because of fungicides he applied.
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Run Time: | 00:09 |
Description: Just a optimal, optimal environment for it, the only thing we had was just way too much rain, and the rain was combated with like I said, we had to hoe a lot and we had to spray a lot." |
But one pumpkin patch owner wasn't as fortunate, he lost his entire pumpkin crop to the rain.
Reporting from the state Capitol, I'm Rebecca Stephen.