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Due to recent storms, many businesses have suffered due to flooding, power outages, and damaged structures. In addition, according to The Asbury Park Press, Northeastern states are facing a pumpkin shortage this Halloween after Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, farmers say.

Wholesale prices have doubled as farmers have been attempting to save their surviving pumpkin plants toward a late harvest. Some farmers are trying to buy pumpkins from other regions to cover orders. “I’ve tried buying from people down in the Pennsylvania area, I’ve tried locally here and I’ve tried reaching across the border to some farmers over in the Quebec area. There’s just none around,” said Darcy Pray, owner of Darcy’s Family Farms in Keeseville, New York.

Pray saw his entire crop, about 15,000 to 20,000 pumpkins, washed into Lake Champlain. However, pumpkin farmers had been having a difficult year even before the storm. Heavy rains this spring meant many farms had to postpone planting for two or three weeks, setting back the fall harvest.

A late harvest can be fatal to business because pumpkin sales plummet after Halloween on October 31st, so wholesalers need to get pumpkins on their way to stores by mid-September. The wholesale price for a bin of 32 to 45 pumpkins ranged from $150 to $200 in upstate New York, about twice the normal price, Pray said.

The pumpkin crisis could also affect tourism because pick-your-own pumpkin farms have become important attractions in many rural areas, farmers said.

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