Is climate change picking (off) the best pumpkins this year? Extreme weather decimates crops

Will climate change make Halloween pumpkins a thing of the past? US farmers say there’s ‘no future’ for their trade.

“There’s no future after me,” says Colorado pumpkin farmer Alan Mazzotti. “My boys won’t farm.”

He’ll keep farming pumpkins for a bit longer, but water shortages, climate change and spiralling costs are making his livelihood untenable.

Some farmers lost 20 per cent or more of their predicted yields this year.