The average price of a large pumpkin this year is $5.68, up from $4.92 last year.
As a result of increased fuel costs, there has been nearly a 20 percent increase in pumpkin prices from Texas to Maryland.
“The price of fuel has affected everything, the fertilizer for … pumpkins has been, you know, unbelievable,” Maryland farmer Tammy Adkins“It seems that everything has gone up and of course parents see that at the grocery store so it’s affected us as well,” she added.“[W]e didn’t have much rain in August, so the hot weather where it gets above 90 degrees we didn’t get the pollination we should’ve got,” said farmer and owner Gaylon Adkins.
Adkins noted that he is being forced to drive north from his home in Maryland to Delaware or Pennsylvania to buy pumpkins this year.a record $10.6 billion on Halloween this year, with $3.4 billion on decorations.the inflation rate in August, increasing by 11.4 percent since last year under President Joe Biden. Grocery store prices soared even more — 13.5 percent.
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